Sauromatum venosum has also been hardy here for 30+ years. It's flowering right now. It often sets seed, right at ground level, clusters of deep purple-black berries, but I don't see many self-sown plants and haven't tried germinating it. The Dracunculus usually sets copious seed, and it's definitely fertile. Steve On 5/26/2021 10:33 PM, Judy Glattstein via pbs wrote: > Dracunculus vulgaris has been hardy, here in western New jersey. I > know when it flowers - fortunately at the bottom of the driveway far > from the house - because I think, "Oh, there must be a dead and > rotting groundhog. No, it's the Dracunculus." Neighborhood dogs ignore > it. And I've never seen the black vultures circling over it. > > Sauromatum has also turned out to be quite hardy. And multiplying > enthusiastically too. They are emerging now, flowering, popular with > flies crawling over the spadix. No stench, not like the Dracunculus. > > Judy, happy to report we've finally had rain this evening, a > delightful 4/10th of an inch. And very welcome too. > > > On 5/26/2021 11:16 PM, Steve Marak via pbs wrote: >> I suspect it was wet + cold that killed the bulbifer I had outdoors, >> so I think your idea is good. Conveniently, bulbifer produces those >> propagules on the leaf so I had a couple of small ones to keep in the >> greenhouse as backup. >> >> I know there's considerable variation in hardiness of different >> strains of Dracunculus vulgaris, but so far every strain of Amorph. >> konjac I've tried has been hardy here, in almost all locations and >> soils short of waterlogged. They'll survive in strong sun, but seem >> to be much happier here in half shade or even more. >> >> Steve > > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>