Amorphophallus yunnanensis Cypripedium By summer the seeds are

By summer the seeds are mature and shed from the fruit as the fruit open

which translates to "flock of sparrows"

the sturdy clumps are topped with dramatic and very attractive purple flower buds which open later to reveal lavender flowers atop 3' scapes

adorned with fleshy-colored flowers that tuck beneath the foliage in late winter

Amorphophallus yunnanensis Cypripedium By summer the seeds areThis fun, easy to grow species from Yunnan, China makes a small plant to 3' tall. The single leaf is held atop a 2 3' tall, smooth, dark green stalk, beautifully mottled with lighter green and flesh colored blotches. The flower of Amorphophallus yunnanensis emerges in early spring, albeit nothing like its better endowed cousins. The 3 6" tall spadix, looking like a pink alien head with a white neck, sits atop a nicely mottled 1 2' tall petiole