[Aroid-l] RE: Helicodiceros potting

**&* <m*@hctc.com>**

> The only benefit I could see is that the offsets or
> dormant "eyes" might grow more happily being released from
> the apical dominance of the main growing point.
> But maybe that's no point at all....
> 
That makes sense... but to make a more obvious (?)
observation, in the wild, where the plant was spreading out
by offsets, probably the offsets would angle away from the
parent tuber.  And if the species has a rhizomatous growth,
lengthening over time, it more likely naturally lengthens
across the ground rather than rising above or burrowing
deeper.  Just the other day, at Lyon Arboretum, I saw some
Xanthosoma of the type with "banana-like" trunks, but grown
so long the trunks were lying on the ground, with just the
"head" raised up.

Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large
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