Typhonium venosum

(Aiton) Hett. & P.C. Boyce 2000

Until 2000 T. venosum belonged to the genus Sauromatum and it's better known
as S. venosum, S. guttatum or S. pedatum. It grows wild in the Himalayas.
In horticulture it resists temperatures to 0°C. It blooms in spring without soil and watering before leafing.

The tuber with a bud is about 8 cm in diameter.	A cut-open inflorescence.

Inflorescences: On the left photo with an adult Amorphophallus konjac. On the right one it's withering after 3 days of blooming.

Male flowers.
Female flowers and pistillodes above them.

After withering of the inflorescence the leaf emerges from cataphylls.

It's unfolding...	The compound leaf has 9-13 leaflets.

This one stayed in a pot.	Venation of the leaf.

The petiole pattern.

Typhonium venosum in my garden.

Link to the IAS: Typhonium venosum Link to Krzysztof Kozminski's Sauromatum venosum page. Link to Lester Kallus's page on Sauromatum venosum. Link to Fausto Ceni - a big photo of the inflorescence.