Re: Amorphophallus 2nd flowering
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- Subject: Re: Amorphophallus 2nd flowering
- From: W* H*
- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:31:36 -0600 (CST)
And here am I thinking I know a thing or two about them phalloids....... My
explanation is that your tuber is SO big, it may have developed a second,
subdominant apical (do you need more of those words.....?) bud, that
obviously was also induced to flower but emerged later than the dominant
one. How's THAT for a fairy tale?
Nonetheless I think there may be a bit of truth in it. One question though:
does the second inflorescencence emerge from the base of the leaf (in it's
axil), or is it slightly distant from that base? In the first case, you
really have a case of overactivity in the flowering department, in the
second case, my explanation goes!
Happy growin'
Wilbert Lord P.
----- Original Message -----
From: van den Bergh <bergh@tpg.com.au>
To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L <aroid-l@mobot.org>
Sent: donderdag 30 november 2000 4:46
Subject: Amorphophallus 2nd flowering
> I have a large tuber of Amorphophallus prainii and it flowered wonderfully
> in October [southern hemisphere] filling the house with the stench of
> propane gas as it wafted its perfume in from where it grows in front of
the
> verandah. A month later, now it has put up it's leaf shoot with leaf
> unfurling, however alongside is another flower from the same tuber. Is
this
> usual, for some reason I had the impression to expect only one flower per
> tuber for each season.
>
> Marilyn van den Bergh.
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