RE: [Aroid-l] Off topic--'cultivating' Rafflesia

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From : 	piaba <piabinha@yahoo.com>

Reply-To : 	Discussion of aroids <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
Sent : 	Friday, January 12, 2007 7:57 PM
To : 	aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Subject : 	[Aroid-l] Rafflesia

I know that my friend Pia who posted this is knowledgable as to the

following, but for those who are not, and who just might even THINK about

his suggestion of trying to establish Rafflesia in Horticulture, the

following facts might disuade them and save them lots of time and effort.

To realisticly grow Raflesia, on would have to first obtain the seeds and

cultivate a specific giant jungle vine to maturity, as the only place that

Rafflesia is know to exist is as a parasite WITHIN the tissues of one of

these GIANT jungle vines. Rafflesia (which does not have leaves, roots or

branches) grows there for an undeterminate length of time, and presumably

when mature, produces a flower bud which then emerges from the vine, and if

it attains maturity and opens, and if pollination is sucessful (by carrion

flies), and seed is produced, these are then distributed by birds, and IF

one adhers to the correct vine, a new parasitic Raffelesia grows within the

mature vines tissues.

Who is off to Asia to collect seeds??  :--)

Julius
WPB,
FLORIDA

not an aroid, but maybe some you might want to grow

it????  :-)

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=rafflesia&btnG=Search+News

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