spandix? ordure?
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: spandix? ordure?
- From: B* S* <B*@HSC.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:01:07 -0400
>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.
Spadix, not spandix, is correct. Spandex, however, is correct only in some
circles. I think Gene means odor, not ordure, although the odor released
by Arisaemas smells like ordure. Remember when "law and order" was a
political slogan? Sounded like "lawn ordure" to me.
Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>
