new photos of interesting aroid on ID page

From: Lester Kallus lkallus at earthlink.net> on 1999.10.27 at 21:55:31(3789) Tuan DeMoranville submitted some more photos of an interesting looking aroid. If you get a chance, please log onto the ID site at: http://www.kallus.com/aroids/aroidid/id.html +More and see if you can help. And just to remind you... if you have items on the aroid ID page which have already been identified, please let me know so that they can be moved elsewhere. Thanks, Les

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 1999.10.28 at 02:18:08(3790) Dear Les, I have dropped Tuan a line, I saw these photos at the Aroid show in Miami, and it was decided that this was a BEAUTIFUL, perhaps THE most beautiful 'sport' or cultivar of Colocasia esculenta so far discovered, said to have been found in the Philipines, brought to Puerto Rico, and is now in cultivation in the U.S.A. It produces stolons, not a tuber, so will spread rapidly once out into the open. Cheers, Julius

From: Lester Kallus lkallus at earthlink.net> on 1999.10.28 at 04:09:35(3791) Well it seems that my suspicions were right about it being a Colocasia. It's good news that it spreads wildly but bad news for us in the north who would hope to have it spend a winter in a paper bag. Oh well, this will probably be one stoloniferous plant I'd be willing to give some space indoors. So the next question is... how long before we civilians can get one? Les +More At 09:19 PM 10/27/1999 -0500, you wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Lester Kallus >To: ju-bo@msn.com >Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 5:58 PM >Subject: new photos of interesting aroid on ID page > > >Dear Les, >I have dropped Tuan a line, I saw these photos at the Aroid show in Miami, >and it was decided that this was a BEAUTIFUL, perhaps THE most beautiful >'sport' or cultivar of Colocasia esculenta so far discovered, said to have >been found in the Philipines, brought to Puerto Rico, and is now in >cultivation in the U.S.A. It produces stolons, not a tuber, so will spread >rapidly once out into the open. >Cheers, >Julius > >

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 1999.10.28 at 13:51:23(3792) Dear Les, The guy that had the plant photos said that he wanted to hold on to the plants and see how he could get something out of them, I wished him well, for, like Pandora`s box, once he opens the gate, this plant will be a weed. I understand that the USDA is in the process of or already has declared Colocasia sps. a weed/undesirable plant, no importing, etc., both (I suspect) as a protection for the local growers of Eddoes and Dasheen in the South AND to try to control the spread of the stolon-types of Colocasia rampant at least here in S. Florida as a terrible weed on lake banks, canals and in wet fields. Cheers, Julius +More >>Well it seems that my suspicions were right about it being a Colocasia. It's good news that it spreads wildly but bad news for us in the north who would hope to have it spend a winter in a paper bag. Oh well, this will probably be one stoloniferous plant I'd be willing to give some space indoors. So the next question is... how long before we civilians can get one? Les<<

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