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Re: Arisarum proboscideum


> Several years ago,from a seedling sale, I received a small plant of this that
> has yet to bloom for me.  This year it has put on much new growth (I fed it)
> and has formed "bulbils" at the axis where the leaves join the stem.  Does
> this sound like the above named plant and how do I handle the "bulbils"?  I
> would like to pot some up for next weeks seedling sale.  Any help would be
> much appreciated.
>                           Mark Mazer  Gaylordsville CT  Zone 5

Mark,

There has been no comment on your question yet so I am tempted to throw 
in mine with a qualifier.  I know nothing about A. proboscideum but what I 
have read, and have never seen the little plant.  In all that I have read 
there has been nothing mentioned about bulbil production.  Much is 
mentioned, however, about the curious infloresence that has a long tail 
resembling that of a mouse, thus the common name "mouse plant". But then 
you have yet to see an infloresence.

Your description leads me to believe that this plant has a single "stem" 
(petiole) with multiple leaflets growing at the end of that stem, with the 
bulbil growing at the axis point where each leaflet comes together.  You 
mentioned bulbils (plural). Are they all growing at the same point, or 
are they at the intersections of other leaflets?

>From the few photos of A. proboscideum that I have, it appears that the 
plant bears multiple leaves, each on its own petiole and each growing 
directly from the tuber. But your brief description of a single stem
(petiole) with multiple leaflets sounds more like Amorphophallus bulbifer 
or muelleri, both of which produce bulbils. 

Now that I have stumbled around guessing, is there an expert opinion in 
the house?

Don 

Don Burns   Plantation, FL USA   Zone 10b
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