Re: Dracontium amazonense

Dear Vincent and Scott,

Some species of tuberous aroids, even in genera such as Amorphophallus, Dracontium and Arisaema, in which  most species in GENERAL go dormant, have species which grow in perpetually ''wet'' areas, these do no NEED to go dormant.  Let the species name ''amazonense'' tip you off!   There seldom is a dry period in the Amazon region where this species occurs naturally!   There are a few other species of Dracontium (D. spruceanum comes to mind) which can be grown year-long with no dormant period.  One can ''force'' dormancy by letting the pot dry out, but most growers would not recomend this.  The late Lynn Hannon was one who had them grow all year, keeping them moist.

Good Growing,

Julius

Julius

From: scott.taylor@brevardparks.com
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:34:11 -0400
To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Dracontium amazonense

I have had this species for some time, and I see no pattern to dormancy, which sometimes never occurs, at least here in Florida. I have heard that drying them out will induce dormancy, but have never tried this?
dst
On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:03 AM, E.Vincent Morano wrote:

I have a Dracontium amazonense that I wrote about before. Now it has grown a new leaf alongside the one it had all season. I thought these grew durring the year and then went dormant for the winter months. So first should it be growing a new leaf (a bigger one at that) and second when should/how should I let /make it go dormant?
Thank you.

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