Re: [Aroid-l] Hardy Sauromatum?

**b*@optonline.net**

Hey Don,
Any dishes at your restaurant utilizing the harvest of bushels of Sauromatum tubers ha ha? I always thought I could go out to my yard if starving...
Bonaventure Magrys
Cliffwood beach, NJ

----- Original Message -----
From: Don Martinson <llmen@wi.rr.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2005 8:09 pm
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Hardy Sauromatum?

> >I was given a Sauromatum by a friend in Columbus, OH that is 
> fully 
> >hardy on Canton, OH (z5b). It blooms every year, sets seeds and 
> pups 
> >religiously. Can anyone tell me what it is?
> 
> 
> Probably just the same Typhonium venosum, as it is now called.
> 
> >
> >The leaf is large, about 3' tall and it really spirals from the 
> >center to the edges. I don't know if it has reseeded itself as I 
> am 
> >only there a couple weeks at a time. I have thought about 
> harvesting 
> >the seeds but I haven't.
> 
> 
> Typhonium venosum is one of those plants which offsets or pups so 
> freely that it is hardly worth the bother of harvesting and 
> germinating seeds unless you have some specific reason for doing so.
> 
> My experience with this plant, which has only overwintered for me 
> once here in Milwaukee, is that it is hardy in the ground to about 
> 0 
> or +5 degrees F.  Siting next to a building or additional mulch 
> will 
> probably gain you another 10 or 15 degrees lower in temp.
> 
> -- 
> Don Martinson
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> llmen@wi.rr.com
> 
> 
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