Re: alocasia sinuata
- Subject: Re: alocasia sinuata
- From: D*
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:06:34 -0600 (CST)
Dear Aroiders:
The tall Alocasia plants that were sent out of my nursery labeled
Alocasia sinuata could very well have been miss identified. The Tissue
culture labs are propagators and take the word of the person who brings
a plant in as to its identity. There is no protocol which requires that
they take it to a taxonomist and have it properly identified before they
propagate and disseminate liners to plant nurseries to grow out and
sell. Therefor a few plants go out into the industry with incorrect
names because growers believe the lab's id or the originators id to be
correct.
Denis at Silver Krome Gardens, Inc.
George Yao wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
> Are you sure your 7ft plant is A. sinuata? Dr. A. Hay's recent review
> of Philippine Alocasias described A. sinuata (syn. A. 'Quited Dreams')
> as a herb to only 35cms. My Quilted Dreams grow to not much more than
> a foot.
>
> To answer Tony's query on origin, in the same review, the note on
> distribution of A. sinuata says it is endemic to the Philippines.
>
> George Yao <gcyao@netasia.net>
> Metro-Manila, Philippines
>
> At 12:53 PM 10/19/01, you wrote:
>
> > Tony I have an Alocasia sinuata. This plants has grown to 7ft but
> > has yet to flower for me. I have also dug the thing up every year to
> > keep it safe from our zone 6 winters. I have noticed each year a
> > miss a few pup and they have survived our winters. Though I don't
> > think a larger bulb would survive. The smaller tubers lasted threw 3
> > weeks of weather below 30 degrees. Also had Amorphophallus albus
> > make it threw that same winter. THANKS
> >
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