Stinky Bulb Now in Flower
Judy Glattstein via pbs (Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:43:16 PDT)

Good picture, Steve. Did you need a gas mask while taking it?

My Sauromatum clump up but not the Dracunculus.

As well as hardy / less hardy variations there is also a leaf variation.
Steve, yours appear to be solid green. Mine have white stripes. Don't
have a good picture but will try for one tomorrow.

Judy

On 6/14/2021 10:21 PM, Steve Marak via pbs wrote:

Nice picture, Judy! Mine, in NW Arkansas, were at their peak on June
4. A picture of one patch of them is attached (I hope).

I've grown it for 35 years, and it was given to me by someone local
who had grown it for about that long and had a similar story, so this
strain has been around here for a long time. They will set lots of
seed, which is viable, but I usually don't collect much since few
people seem to want it.

I think there are more and less hardy strains. I gave some to a friend
who planted them at the Denver BG. A couple of years later he told me
that he liked them so much he'd bought more. The ones I gave him
survived the Denver winters, the others didn't.

Does anyone know a source for the white-spathed form?

Steve

On 6/14/2021 6:55 PM, Judy Glattstein via pbs wrote:

Well, if he really wants to grow something that smells like a
decaying woodchuck, a week dead and rotting in the summer heat,
Dracunculus vulgaris should do it for him.

It is not difficult to find. Both Brent & Becky's Bulbs, also McClure
& Zimmerman are offering it in their catalogs for fall planting. B&B
$4.50 each, 5 for $19.50. M&Z $10.50 each, 3 for $26.95

Myself, I'd prefer to plant outdoors in spring. Perhaps pot up and
keep dry over the winter in a frost free location.

But it is fully hardy here in western New Jersey. My earliest images
are from late June 2009. So it has been in the ground, no extra
protection, for better than a decade. Planted one, still have just
one. Don't recall any seed set but I'll keep watch.

Judy

On 6/14/2021 7:36 PM, Kenneth Preteroti via pbs wrote:

Judy my son Thomas liked your plant. He said he wants it!

Ken P

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