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Re: New photo

Dick,

I have seen thousands of mutations during my twenty year career in plant
tissue culture, but the Amorphophallus in this image is by far the most
spectacular mutation I have ever seen, or heard of, if it is truly a
mutated plant out of tissue culture.  I think it is much more likely an
escaped or introduced Am. pendulus.  As to the exact identification of the
specimen, I will defer to Wilbert's judgment.

I know that Ron Gagliardo and the other staff at the Atlanta Botanical
Gardens do seem to make miracles happen with their very competent
horticulture and tissue culture, but I seriously doubt that the origin of
the plant to be from a mutated culture.  Regardless, the image is of a fine
looking aroid, and I will be interested in getting a plant after they
become available from Ron's competent cloning efforts.

Regards,  Scott
--
Mr. Scott E. Hyndman
Winter Park, Florida
USA
E-mail:  scothynd@magicnet.net


Richard Mansell wrote:

> Greetings:  I received this message from Ron Gagliardo at the Atlanta
> Botanical Garden.  The address for the photo is:
>
> http://www.cas.usf.edu/~mansell/images/ABG1.jpg
>
> This plant appeared in a batch of Amorphophallus planted out from our
> lab in Oct. 97.  At that time, we had 5 species in culture, A.
> curvistilus, gigas, knojac, titanum and variabilis.  Some of these other
> species are seen in the background.  This particular one is most likely
> a mutant of A. konjac, but we can't be 100 % sure because when it came
> up in the greenhouse, it was among the tc plants, but without a label.
> It does look like A. pendulus in the Aroideana photo, but we have never
> had A. pendulus at ABG and of course, never had it in tissue culture.
> So, that's the story.  Of course, we plan to put this clone back in
> tissue culture and hope it comes true.
>
> He thought you might be interested in seeing the plant.
>
> Dick
> --
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>
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