[Aroid-l] more on Amorphophallus

From: "Nancy Greig" <ngreig at hmns.org> on 2010.07.28 at 18:02:41 Hello everyone.  Thanks to many of you for your helpful comments to us A. titanum neophytes.  I wish I had known about the IAS and the listserve before this all happened – we are scrambling now to catch up!  It sounds from what I’m hearing that first time blooms are often sterile (at least produce no pollen) and also do not smell, or not much.  Certainly that was our experience.  Now I have another question.  How long will it be before the inflorescence and peduncle abscise from the tuber?  (a week, several weeks, ???)  And will the inflorescence break off first, and then the peduncle wither?  Or does it abscise at the base of the peduncle first?    Thanks so much for sharing your experience!   Nancy   Nancy Greig Director, Cockrell Butterfly Center Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Drive Houston, TX  77030-1799   Tel 713-639-4742 www.hmns.org   ------_=_NextPart_001_01CB2E7F.129F40D1-- --===============3920114058809935565==

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