Re: Aroid stamp=Taro=Colocasia

**&* A* <a*@wp.pl>**

Thanks to all, especially Julius, I would never get to this alone

Marek


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brian lee" <lbmkjm@yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of aroids" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid stamp=Taro=Colocasia


> Dear Julius and all involved in this thread of
> thought,
>
> Aloha.  I do agree with the line of thought that this
> is a popular illustration and not necessarily a
> scientifically accurate depiction.
>
> Having said that, the Piko varieties of Hawaiian taro
> are indeed distinguished by having sagittate versus
> peltate leaf blades.  They are cut to the connection
> of the petiole or piko...which translates to belly
> button or umbilicus.  The depiction of the corm habit
> is similar...but not entirely accurate.  Color in the
> piko varieties varies greatly and the leaf blades and
> petioles often have very ornamental stripes or blushes
> of color, etc.  There are also plain green varieties.
> In Hawaii, taro cultivation reached a zenith and there
> are records that 150-175 taro varieties once existed.
> However, many of these cultivars are lost and exactly
> which names were synonymous is impossible to
> reconstruct.  Today, less than 70 cultivars may still
> remain of the native forms...and some are very rare.
>
> I do remember the Sunday comics...not to the detail of
> Julius's magnificent memory, however.
>
> Aloha,
>
> Leland
>
> --- Julius Boos <ju-bo@msn.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> From : Marek Argent <abri1973@wp.pl>
>> Reply-To : Discussion of aroids
>> <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
>> Sent : Friday, September 28, 2007 4:27 PM
>> To : "Discussion of aroids"
>> <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
>> Subject : Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid stamp
>>
>> Dear Aroidophiles,
>>
>> I have wracked my old brain, read ALL the opinions
>> on what plant this
>> artwork depicts, and have FINALLY come up with what
>> I THINK the answer might
>> be!
>> A saying that has stood me well in my life has been
>> --'When everything else
>> fails, read the instructions".   With this ringing
>> in my silly old brain,
>> and with a VERY vague memory of a Colocasia (taro)
>> cultivar with a
>> sagittate, NOT peltate leaf blade, I dove into Deni
>> Bown`s FANTASTIC tome,
>> "Aroids, Plants of the Arum family".
>> And---AHA!!--Pg. 250!!  There are on
>> Hawaii (and presumably in other areas of the
>> Pacific, such as Micronesia,
>> the small Islands and Atols scattered across the
>> Pacific between New Guinea
>> and Hawaii),  SEVERAL popular cultivars named
>> "piko", with the posterior
>> leaf lobes open to the navel, or 'piko', exactly as
>> depicted in the artwork
>> on the stamps.
>> Perhaps the artist tasked with depicting all these
>> 'pretty-prettys' on the
>> sheet of postage stamps was given one of these
>> seemingly
>> common-in-the-region cultivars to depict in the
>> painting??   The corms and
>> head-sat (huli) on the same stamp are a fair and
>> typical depiction of a
>> taro/Colocasia cultivar.   Mammy Yokum`s words, "Ah
>> has spoken' " from the
>> Sunday cartoon ''Dogpatch" by Al Kap come to mind.
>> (Let`s see how many of
>> you older ones 'out there' recall this!).
>> I hope this solves the puzzle!
>>
>> Good Growing,
>>
>> Julius
>>
>>
>> >>Attachment :  micronesia89.jpg (0.16 MB)
>> Ok, here it is again. it's not 16th but 12th stamp.
>>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     From: Kyle Baker
>>     To: Discussion of aroids
>>     Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:24 PM
>>     Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid stamp
>>
>>     no photo available...says its a binary
>> file,,,good lord do they make
>> those anymore?
>>
>>    kfb maine
>>
>>     Marek Argent <abri1973@wp.pl> wrote:
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>         The 12th stamp in this sheet is named
>> "taro",
>>         but the leaf doesn't look like Colocasia
>> esculenta, rather like
>> Xanthosoma sp.
>>         What may it be? I know that artist sometimes
>> don't see important
>> features for botanists.
>>
>>
>>
> http://photos02.allegro.pl/photos/oryginal/248/70/61/248706105
>>
>>         Besides I read somewhere that in various
>> regions of the world,
>> different species are cultivated as "taro".
>>
>>         Can anyone help?
>>
>>         Marek Argent
>>         ___
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Aroid-L mailing list
>> Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com
>> http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l
>>
>
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________
> Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, 
> news, photos & more.
> http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC
> _______________________________________________
> Aroid-L mailing list
> Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com
> http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l
>
>
> __________ NOD32 Informacje 2561 (20071001) __________
>
> Wiadomosc zostala sprawdzona przez System Antywirusowy NOD32
> http://www.nod32.com lub http://www.nod32.pl
>
> 

_______________________________________________
Aroid-L mailing list
Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com
http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l