Re: Amorphophallus stipitatus
- Subject: Re: Amorphophallus stipitatus
- From: A* G*
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:28:43 -0500 (CDT)
Bonaventure,
Sounds like you've already correctly IDed this as Am. konjac.
Mine turned out to be Am. konjac.
The Int. Aroid Society is in the process of setting up a trading
site. Please be patient as getting the logistics in place is somewhat
time consuming.
Alan
> This species came to me as Kaichen 1999 A-102. On Chen Yi's web site, the
> flower sort of looks like konjac, but smaller and perhaps taken at a
> distance. Not having bloomed for me yet, the 3 foot parasols look like the
> konjacs I am also growing. Anyone have a positive i.d., vegatative key?
> I sent out offsets to others of one big mama I dug up last fall (its one
> single parasol is now over 3 feet high and wide, blocking the walkway at
> the side of the house), but the other tuber seemed perfectly hardy here in
> NewJersey and is a big jumble of parasols in its narrow bed. When is/are
> our group(s) supposed to set up a trading post bulletin board? If grant
> money holds out for my boss here, and I'm still on-line in the fall, I can
> be reached privately at magrysbo@shu.edu.
> Bonaventure Magrys
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