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Aroids Partly documented

Anchomanes difformis

A large tuberous aroid of West and Central African forest edges, secondary forest and wooded savanna that sends up a single tall, prickly-stalked, much-divided leaf each wet season. It goes dormant in the dry season, so it is grown like a giant Amorphophallus: warm, humid and well fed in growth, dry and warm at rest.

Anchomanes difformis
Photo: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
Expects a seasonal restGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Terrestrial geophyte of forest margins, gallery forest, secondary regrowth and forest-savanna mosaic, rooting from a large horizontal tuber in humus-rich soil. Records are concentrated in the Benin forest-savanna zone, with others in Gabon and Cameroon rainforest.

Recorded from near sea level to about 1,500 m, median around 355 m; mostly lowland.

SenegalGambiaGuinea-BissauGuineaSierra LeoneLiberiaIvory CoastMaliBurkinaGhanaTogoBeninNigeriaCameroonEquatorial GuineaGulf of Guinea Is.

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.