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Typhonium alismifolium

Typhonium alismifolium is a deciduous, corm-forming aroid native to northern Australia, found in dry rainforest and deciduous vine forest. It is rarely grown outside its native range, and it is best kept as a seasonal plant that rests and regrows from its corm each year.

Family
Araceae (Arum family)
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water freely during the growing season and reduce or stop when the leaves die back, keeping the corm barely moist while dormant.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich mix such as peat-based compost with added grit or perlite.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate

About

Typhonium alismifolium is a species of plant in the Araceae family that is endemic to Australia.

Where it grows

The species is known from the Northern Territory and northeastern Queensland, where it grows in dry rainforest and deciduous vine forest.

Other Typhonium plants

Typhonium angustilobum · Typhonium brownii · Typhonium cochleare · Typhonium eliosurum · Typhonium flagelliforme · Typhonium jinpingense · Typhonium johnsonianum · Typhonium jonesii · Typhonium liliifolium · Typhonium mirabile · Typhonium nudibaccatum · Typhonium peltandroides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Typhonium alismifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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