Re: [aroid-l] Kaichen Arisaema A-30
- Subject: Re: [aroid-l] Kaichen Arisaema A-30
- From: Gusman Guy g*@ulb.ac.be
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:16:42 +0100 (MET)
>Below are links to photos of my plants of Kaichen Nursery Arisaema
>A-30, which is advertised as: Arisaema sikokianum var. sikokianum.
>
>Comments? Does this appear correct?
>
>http://home.wi.rr.com/llmen/aris1.jpg
>http://home.wi.rr.com/llmen/aris2.jpg
>http://home.wi.rr.com/llmen/aris3.jpg
>http://home.wi.rr.com/llmen/aris4.jpg
>
>--
>Don Martinson
>Milwaukee, Wisconsin
>l*@wi.rr.com
>
Don,
What you got from Kaichen is a green-spathed form of Arisaema engleri. A. sikokianum does not grow in China; it is endemic to Shikoku, Japan.
A. engleri, which has also red-spathed forms, grows in C and E China.
There is a confusion in the Flora of China, in its Chinese version (1979), which was dicussed and clarified in The Genus Arisaema (page 242-243) where all synonyms are given.
Best regards.
Guy Gusman
