Old A. paeoniifolius such as this specimen, typically grow in a cycle of vegetation in the first season followed by winter dormancy as a large depressed-globose tuber. In the following growing season, the tuber produces the inflorescence, which quickly withers unless pollinated. After the passing of the inflorescence, the tuber remains dormant until the next growing season when a leaf sprouts to produce a new tuber.

In the image above, the plant is shown growing during the 1998 season in a 570 liters pot in my backyard under the partial shade of a live oak.

To learn more about how to grow Amorphophallus go here. A culture sheet for Amorphophallus titanum from the Botanical Garden Bonn is available here. To see how A. paeoniifolius is grown in India as a food crop go here.