A year in the life of A. ankarana

This page shows development of A.ankarana plant from dormant tuber.

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	Top view of a tuber breaking dormancy. Despite no early indications of having formed offsets, this tuber is evidently going to form three stems (in addition to the two clearly visisble on the right, there is one starting to grow in the middle as well).
	This tuber has been almost lost - a substantial portion, perhaps 15-20% has rotted away. This photo shows the final stage in amorphophallus tuber repair process: the gunk has been scooped out, and the wound covered thickly with fungicide (Captan). The patient has survived...
	... not only survived, but put up thre leaves!

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All photos Copyright © 1997 Krzysztof Kozminski

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