Re: [SG] New Member/ now Arisaema

Hello Tamara,
        The long spandix offers a better chance at pollination. Not only do you
attract the flying insects but get a better chance for the crawlers as
well... kind of provides an up-ramp. I have seen ants crawling up the long
whip-lashes. Also many of these long appendages are scented, so this
releases more ordure into the air.
        Many of the Arisaema lead pretty strange sex lives. If you get a chance
read up on them sometime. Our local Jack in the Pulpit changes sex from
year to year based upon age, health and weather conditions of the year it
is growing. Poor year with stress this year it can change over to male in
bloom the following season. Reason? Lack of reserves. It takes more energy
to be female and produce young.
        Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
          around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com

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> From: Tamara Milostan <tmilosta@SCNC.BAS.K12.MI.US>

> > spathes shaped like cobras staring you in the eye ready to strike, long
> > whip-lash spandix snaking out to weave through the foliage and down on
to
>
> Gene - Any idea of the purpose of that looong spandix? Tamara
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