Zamioculcas zamiifolia
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Zamioculcas |
I have been looking for photographs of the inflorescence of Zamioculcas zamiifolia several times in the last years with different search engines, but I only found one or two images of entire plants with hardly recognizable inflorescences. |
Zamioculcas zamiifolia plant with inflorescence © 1998 Nick Vercammen |
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My Photos |
The Zamioculcas zamiifolia |
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| photos 1-4 |  Zamioculcas inflorescence; inflated leaf base (left) |
 Zamioculcas inflorescence: side view |
 Zamioculcas inflorescence: spathe, spadix |
 Zamioculcas inflorescence: spadix, male flowers |
These photos were taken in May 2000, one day after the spathe had opened. The spathe is upright, partly covering the spadix. Female flowers are fertile, showing a short yellow pistil. Male flowers are still immature. |
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Enlarged details from photographs 1-4 |  spadix; immature male flowers, perigon (4 tepals) |
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photos 1-4, enlarged |
 spadix, greenish spathe, dry bract |
 spadix, greenish spathe, dry bract |
 lower part of the spadix; immature male flowers; female flowers (below; out of focus) |
Photographs of mature male flowers see below  Photographs of mature female flowers see below |
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My Photos II |
And here's the Zamioculcas zamiifolia |
Photos 5-11 were taken in June 2000, about 3 weeks after the first ones (1-4). | |||
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 ~6 weeks after the first pics (during repotting): male part of spadix wilted, female part swollen. note: tuber (left) |
The inflorescence has bent down, the stalk is elongated. The spathe is folded backwards, partly covering the 'female' base of the spadix. Male flowers have ripened, pollen is released. The 'male' upper part of the spadix has aged noticeably. (In photo 12, it has dried up almost entirely). Pistils of the female flowers have wilted and are no longer fertile. The 'female' base of the spadix has swollen slightly. Unpolliniated, it remained alive until January 2001. |
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Enlarged details from photographs 8-11 |  |
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The pollen appears to be 'squeezed' out (connected in thread-like aggregates) between the tepals and the infertile pistil (the two-headed structure in the center of the male flowers). The four short stamina remain inside the flower. | |
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My Photos III |
photos of the 2001 inflorescence |
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 base of flowering shoot with bracts and traces of guttation |
 base of flowering shoot with bracts and traces of guttation |
 fertile female and immature male flowers |
 fertile female flower |
The 2001 inflorescence opened in August and remained alive for 8 months. |
some more photos |
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| photos 17-20 |
 appendix at the top of the spathe |
 leaflet, upper side. note: reticulate venation, ovate shape, short tip, glossy dark green colour |
 tip of a leaflet, lower side. |
 Zz: "knee", with annotations. Please note that the distinction between leaf base and leaf proper is originally used for dicots; application for monocots is provisional only. |
Some details: spathe and leaf |
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 Zamioculcas: tuber |
 leaflet cutting with young tuber (upper and lower sides). The leaflet has dried up; the tuber is alive |
 Zz inflorescence after the spathe has folded backwards © 2002 Danny Gauthier, Montreal Used with kind permission. |
 Zamioculcas plant, unfolding new leaves © 2002 Danny Gauthier, Montreal Used with kind permission. |
old and young tubers 2 photos from a Canadian visitor |
| All images and texts, unless indicated otherwise, © 2002 Norbert Anderwald All rights reserved |
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| publication: July 9, 2001 |
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