Re: misidentified tuber?
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- Subject: Re: misidentified tuber?
- From: W* H*
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 10:17:15 -0500 (CDT)
Neil,
If your plant is anything like T. (S.) venosum, it should have a "pedate"
leaf, i.e. foot-shaped. The leaflets of Arisaema concinnum are grouped in a
circle, so the circumference of the entire leaf-blade is circular. Below
ground you may find that T. venosum produces sessile offsets, while A.
concinnum should be producing offsets on long, rhizomatous runners. I also
think that A. concinnum never produces as extravagantly spotted/blotched
leaf-stems as T. venosum does.
Cheers,
Wilbert
----- Original Message -----
From: neal foster <nealfost@umich.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L <aroid-l@mobot.org>
Sent: vrijdag 1 september 2000 3:29
Subject: misidentified tuber?
> About three or four years ago--when I was a new aroidiphile--I was given a
> tuber from a local nursery identified as Arisaema concinnum. After a
couple
> of years of alternately growing this thing in the greenhouse or outdoors
> and storing the original tuber and its numerous offsets in NZ sphagnum in
> the refrigerator, I suddenly noticed the striking similarity of its
> vegetative growth to that of a clump of Typhonium (Sauromatum) venosum,
> newly established on the north side of my garage. The tuber hasn't bloomed
> yet, but does the vegetative growth of A. concinnum look anything like
that
> of Typhonium venosum, or is it likely that I just have more Typhonium, an
> aroid which is grown in large numbers at this same nursery?
>
> ---Neal Foster
>
>
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