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Geophyte discussions => Mystery Bulbs => Topic started by: Uli on May 29, 2022, 03:56:01 PM

Title: [solved -> Aspidistra] Unknown flower
Post by: Uli on May 29, 2022, 03:56:01 PM
Dear All,

This unusual flower opened where I planted Typhonium giganteum. But this flower does not at all fit the pictures in the internet. What is this?
Your help is very much appreciated.

Bye for now

Uli
Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: Diane Whitehead on May 30, 2022, 04:21:26 PM
Maybe it's upside down and those are roots sticking up.
Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: David Pilling on May 30, 2022, 05:21:12 PM
Right click on the picture (in Chrome), Google image search (lens). Usually useless, but this time it finds something that looks like the target. Aspidesta grandiflora.

Other similar ones Duvalia vestita, anemone stinkhorn.
Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: Martin Bohnet on May 30, 2022, 07:17:53 PM
Aspidistra would also fit that part of leaf one can see in pic 1.
Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: Uli on May 30, 2022, 11:57:55 PM
Hello All,
Yes, it is Aspidistra grandiflora. I was so focused on a geophyte flowering without leaves that it did not cross my mind that this strange flower belongs to the Aspidistra leaves which are relatively far away from this flower. And no, the picture is not upside down.
Thank you, David for pointing out how to activate the lens App.
Here is another picture of the whole setting but the flower is barely visible.

Thank you for your help!

Uli 
Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: Uli on May 31, 2022, 12:00:52 AM
P.S. the plain green narrow leaves also seen on the picture belong to Hippeastrum papilio nearby.
Title: Re: Unknown flower
Post by: David Pilling on May 31, 2022, 03:34:36 AM
Quoting the Lancashire botanist Gracie Fields:

"For years we had an aspidistra in a flower pot
On the whatnot, near the 'atstand in the 'all
...
It's the biggest aspidistra in the world"

https://youtu.be/lHN-ZQzkJJU?t=59

Common, low light level indoor plant in the olden days.
Title: Re: [solved -> Aspidistra] Unknown flower
Post by: Martin Bohnet on May 31, 2022, 05:49:43 AM
Quote from: Uli on May 31, 2022, 12:00:52 AMP.S. the plain green narrow leaves also seen on the picture belong to Hippeastrum papilio nearby.
Then I'm happy I wrote "in pic 1" where you actually can se the base of an aspidistra leaf;-) Nice flower - I only ever got Aspidistra attenuata to flower...