Re: [aroid-l] Dracunculus "white form"
- Subject: Re: [aroid-l] Dracunculus "white form"
- From: "Deni Bown" d*@yaxhampark.co.uk
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:41:18 -0000
- Importance: Normal
Could I just add that it's always been a mystery to me why this magnificent
aroid isn't in cultivation. I came across a sizeable colony of the pale form
near some polytunnels of tomatoes (i.e. on waste cultivated land) and they
were simply gorgeous - very tall plants with huge spadices, some uniformly
pale green with either black or yellow spadixes, and others were variously
piebald maroon and pale green. Though described by Huxley & Taylor in
Flowers of Greece and the Aegean (1977) as "white-flowered", there were no
white spathes (or yellow ones)among the ones I saw, though perhaps others
colonies show other variants. I have no idea how common this form is, or
whether the colony I came across still exists.
Years ago someone read my account of this variant in my book (Aroids -
Plants of the Arum Family) and contacted me for the location so he could
bring back some seed. He promised me some seed in return for the info but I
never heard from him again.....
There really should be a serious attempt to introduce the pale form into
cultivation. If anyone has, or is likely to have seed, PLEASE let me know!
Deni Bown
-----Original Message-----
From: aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu
[a*@lists.ncsu.edu]On Behalf Of Wilbert Hetterscheid
Sent: 19 February 2003 17:54
To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu
Subject: Re: [aroid-l] Dracunculus "white form"
Finding is one thing, looking at it another : go to the Dracunculus pages on
the IAS website. The form is yellow, by the way. If you go to Crete, contact
me. I know where it grows.
Lord Secret
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu
> [a*@lists.ncsu.edu]Namens Benoit Mouroux
> Verzonden: dinsdag 18 februari 2003 16:54
> Aan: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu
> Onderwerp: [aroid-l] Dracunculus "white form"
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> could anybody help me for my search for dracunculus vulgaris
> "white form" ?
>
> this form is from "crjte", a mediterrannean island and seems
> to be very hard
> to find.
>
> benoit
> france
>
>
> Benoit MOUROUX
> 30, rue thibaudeau
> 86000 POITIERS
> FRANCE
> http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Amorphophallus_et_araceae/
>
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