Re: [aroid-l] question about tubers vs. bulbs

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Subject: [aroid-l] question about tubers vs. bulbs


Dear Nancy,

I`ll try---it is growing from a corm or tuber, as a bulb has layers like an
onion.
As in other plant families, most aroids reproduce both by vegitative means
(small new tubers or cuttings, the new plants are clones of the 'mother') or
by sexual means (seeds).   It now gets complicated---some aroids, and I
believe Am. konjac is one of them, are capable of producing fertile seeds
without pollenation, and all the new plants from these non-fertilized seed
are clones of the mother plant!   If fertilized, the seed carry the
properties of both the male plant and the female, leading to diversity, some
seedlings showing the characteristics of the male/pollen plant, others of
the female plant, and others a good 'mix' of the two.   This is said to be a
'good' thing, as the  properties of two plants are mixed.  Your plant will
bloom, and then may or may not develop a seed-head.    It may be several
years before it re-builds enough 'strength'/size to bloom again.
I hope this helps.

Good growing,

Julius



> Should I call my Amorphophallus Konjac growing out of a bulb or tuber?
What
> is the difference?  Is it just that a tuber may be shaped different than a
> bulb?
>
> Can I get seeds from a tuberous plant, such as the A. Konjac and have new
> plants come from seeds from the Konjac, or does it only come from more
little
> "tubers".  Mine has never bloomed before.  Does it have to be pollinated
in
> order to keep growing and producing more plants? If it only grows from
> tubers, why does it need to be pollinated?
>
> I'm not a botanist,and my biology classes were over several decades ago.
>
> Nancy
>
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