[Aroid-l] ghost seedlings

**"Michael Marcotrigiano" m*@email.smith.edu**

I get white segregants from my Amorphophallus konjac 'Shattered Glass'. They live for about 3-6 months depending on the corm size but then they die out and when I dig them up there is no new corm.

for images read

http://www.exoticfinches.com/plants/amorphstory.htm 

and scroll down with the "nearly white" link to see pure white ones

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Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D
Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences
Smith College
Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane
Northampton, MA 01063
email: mmarcotr@smith.edu
voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744
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