Amorphophallus 'Meister Eckardt'

This particular cross between Amorphophallus albus and Amorphophallus konjac 'Nightstick' yielded exactly 100 seedlings. Please believe me if I say that it involved quite some work to raise them all in order to bring them to flower. And of course it involved quite some disappointments! Plants growing vigorously but bearing only a very small slightly malformed inflorescence. Or great growing and flowering plants - rotting very easily. However, two plants where and still are exceptional. One is AK77 which is here pictured and now named A. 'Meister Eckardt'. It forms a rather compact plant (compared to A. konjac) with a uniformly coloured petiole. The petiole colour varies from green to dark green (near black at the base) depending on the size of the plant and the sunlight intensity. Attractive but not unusual so far. The unusual feature is the colour of the spathe which has a copperisch note inside and a toxic green outside. I love this colour combination! And it produces a lot of offsets, so I hope to see this one spread around very fast! It is dedicated to a good friend.