Who put the CORM in Corunna?

CORunnaMichigan.UnitedStates
aka   WWW.CORM.US

City Manager Joe Sawyer recently purchased
the City of Corunna's first known corm.
"You can by anything on Ebay!"

Amorphophallus konjac

This 2+ pound tuber of Amorphophallus konjac is 17 inches in diameter. Its nose is already starting to appear. The flower stalk will be bigger each consecutive year as you grow it on. This one has been out in the garden, in morning sun, for several years. I finally decided to dig it up because here in PA it's too cold outside for it to bloom when it wants to, around February-March. So all these years it has just made the leaf, outside, in the summer. The leaf of this plant is beautiful, very tropical in appearance with a mottled stem. If it is happy where you plant it, it will colonize.

When it arrives on your doorstep, unwrap it carefully, and store it in a shoe box in a dark cool closet till February-March, then bring it out and set it on a plate in a sunny window, and watch it make its flower stalk. The flower is amazing, huge and vase-shaped, and often has a peculiar odor, when it feels like it.

When the last Spring frost outside is done, plant it out in the garden, so it can make its leaf, and get re-charged for next year's flower. If you are in a cold climate zone, dig it up, carefully, in the Fall, before hard frost, and bring it in to set in the same cool dark closet till next February-March... You will enjoy this curious plant!

Sound goofey? Check out the beauty of this species in full bloom!




 
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