Pinellia 'Polly Spout' + P. t. 'Atropurpurea'
Paul T. (Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:11:01 PST)

Pinellia 'Polly Spout' is a seedling that Dick Weaver (founder of We-Du
Nursery) found in his garden back in the early 1990's...a hybrid of P.
tripartita 'Atropurpurea' and P. pedatisecta. Dick named it after the
town in NC where We-Du is located. To my knowledge, it is the only
sterile form of pinellia, and while it is very vigorous, it doesn't
offset very rapidly. It puts on a tremendous floral show all summer and
the flowers are most certainly red-flushed, although not as dark as P.
tripartita 'Atropurpurea'. I hope this helps.

Tony,

Thanks for the information. It is interesting that most of the
description I found were of a greeny-yellow flower (or chatreuse and
yellow) and didn't mention any red flush. The pic I found had a red
flush to it, but with the more open flower like pedatissecta. The
difference in descriptions and pic was one reason I did want to find out more.

Out of interest, while we're discussing Pinellia...... IS P.
tripartita 'Atropurpurea' actually P. tripartita? While the leaves
are the same shape, the growth habit, height of flowers, flower form
etc (the stright species for example has a flare around the edge of
the spathe, while the 'Atropurpurea' flower is far more open and
without any sign of the flare along the edge) are just so different
to the straight species that I have always wondered whether it
actually is purely that species?

Thanks again for the info.

Cheers.

Paul T.
Canberra, Australia - USDA Zone Equivalent approx. 8/9

Growing an eclectic collection of plants from all over the world
including Aroids, Crocus, Cyclamen, Erythroniums, Fritillarias,
Galanthus, Irises, Trilliums (to name but a few) and just about
anything else that doesn't move!!