#araceae

photograph by Pungky Nanda Pratama

Smash that like for the EASTERN SKUNK CABBAGE 🚨🚨🚨

I put a lot of time into this 👉🏼👈🏼

Refreshing day at the pond, anyone? Wetland plants are some of my favorite parts of Summer. Golden club, cattail, pickerelweed.

Amorphophallus impressus. I feel this is probably the most rewarding mid-sized amorphophallus for hot climates; it's undaunted by extreme heat, not as thirsty as paeoniifolius (which has great heat tolerance, but tends to shrink if kept too dry), creates lots of offsets (on stolons), blooms at a relatively compact diameter, and is fairly easy to find. And yes, these do make the immediate area smell like something died, but it's only for a little while.

Orontium aquaticum / Golden Club at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

This weird plant is the recently described Bolivian endemic Gorgonidium striatum. Endemic means it's native to only one place and nowhere else - in this case, tropical rainforests on the eastern Andean slopes in Bolivia. As a member of the family Araceae, it has a spadix and spathe inflorescence, which means it has a spike of many tiny flowers (here they're dark purple-brown) surrounded by a big bract (modified leaf), which here is both mottled and striped with green, cream, and a bit of purple. It's an interesting one!

From #Swamptrash