Re: Dead Horse Arum
- Subject: Re: Dead Horse Arum
- From: J* V*
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:52:08 -0500 (CDT)
Dear Alan:
A truly absolutely awesome pet!! Bravissimo!!
This wonderful plant, probably due to its "in-your-face" antisocial
behavior, has to be this tropical aroid guy's favorite temperate zone arum.
Put me on your list for seed if you ever get any.
Barf bags, ahoy!!
JPV
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Galloway <alan_galloway@bellsouth.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L <aroid-l@mobot.org>
Date: Jueves, 26 de Abril de 2001 09:20 a.m.
Subject: Dead Horse Arum
>A few years back, a fellow Aroid-l-er shared some tubers of Helicodiceros
>muscivorus
>with the list. The tubers that I received were planted in the garden here
>in Raleigh, NC,
>USA (USDA Zone 7) and the plants have gotten larger and larger each year.
A
>few
>days ago one plant reached its maturity by producing an inflorescence.
I've
>posted a
>few pictures of this awesome flower on my web site at:
>
> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~alan/plants/aroids/helicodiceros/
>
>The flower is much larger than I expected and the odor so much worse than I
>had
>anticipated. Of all the aroids that have bloomed for me, this is the
worst!
>It even
>outranks Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, which almost makes me hurl
breakfast.
>
>If you notice the latter pictures, where the spathe has been cut open, the
>cream-colored
>substance is the eggs of flies. Of all the aroid flowers that I have
>photographed, many
>have had flies and other insects crawling all over the 'naughty bits', but
>this is the first where
>the flies have actually laid their eggs.
>
>Now, if I can tolerate the odor long enough to collect some pollen.
>
>Alan
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>Alan Galloway
>Raleigh, North Carolina
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>
>
