My Green Dragon is really a Voodoo Lily

10 years ago

For over ten years I have been growing what I thought is a Green Dragon (Arisaema draconum). This year it produced a seed ball. Turns out it is really it is really Sauromatum venosum, Voodoo Lile, not to be confused with Amorphophallus bulbosa which is also called a Voodoo Lily.

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Ralph Whisnant
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10 years ago

Mine are just now dying back, so if yours has been gone for a while, it may not have survived. They make a good sized round pale almost white bulb, so you could check to see if it is still alive. If you would like, I can bring you another.

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Sabji garden (7b), Raleigh NC
10 years ago
WOW!! is all I can say, Ralph. You sure do grow interesting stuff! I have to come over sometime to see it all some day!!

Awesome!! See you at the swap!
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10 years ago
Ralph,

What kind of a "flower" or spathe did it get? Before the seeds? Voodoo lily has a spathe that is unique, you would definately have notice it, and it blooms before the stalk grows out in spring. Did it have a bad smell? Did you notice flies around it at all?

It spreads easier by bulbs that the parent plant creates than by seed, never grew mine from seed. Just wondering, you said you had it for 10 years, so it must be pretty big by now.
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countrygirlsc, Upstate SC
10 years ago
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Then my green dragon must be a voodoo lily too! Although I haven't seen mine come up as yet, but I haven't really looked in that area of the yard.
lisianthuslover
10 years ago
That is cool Ralph! The one you gave me came out and then disappeared. Not sure if it will be back????
lisianthuslover
10 years ago
I am going to check for the bulb today.