sychronized alocasia?

From: mb.cfg at mindspring.com on 2000.05.02 at 22:00:53(4521) To All, (This will not go down as one of the more spectacular questions...but hey what the heck....) +More About 3 months ago I planted two fairly large Alocasia x portora plants (about 5 feet tall each) into the "landscaped" are of my front yard. They are both doing very well and appear to be growing with great vigor... The aforementioned "sychronization" statement refers to the fact that although they are close (in proximity) they certainly get different levels of light, different amounts of water (sprinkler heads a placed randomly) different amounts of nutrition (depending on where I am standing when I spray fertilizer).and yet they do everything at exactly the same time and mimic the movement of each other... For example,(1) every leaf of each plant faces the direction of the corresponding leaf on the other one (and these are not necc. in the direction of the sunlight), (2) they have exactly the same amount of leaves, (3) when one begins to put out a new leaf the other does the same on the same day,(4) when one puts out an inflorescence, they other does as well on the same day,(5) the inflors. open at virtually exactly the same time..and this behavior has been going on for 2 months. Is this just a coincidence or has this "sychronized" behavior been seen before? Thanks Marc Burack

From: "Bonaventure W Magrys" magrysbo at shu.edu> on 2000.05.03 at 23:58:07(4532) Aerosolized phytohormones. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>mb.cfg@mindspring.com on 05/02/2000 06:01:01 PM Please respond to aroid-l@mobot.org To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L cc: (bcc: Bonaventure W Magrys/ADM/SHU) Subject: sychronized alocasia? +More To All, (This will not go down as one of the more spectacular questions...but hey what the heck....) About 3 months ago I planted two fairly large Alocasia x portora plants (about 5 feet tall each) into the "landscaped" are of my front yard. They are both doing very well and appear to be growing with great vigor... The aforementioned "sychronization" statement refers to the fact that although they are close (in proximity) they certainly get different levels of light, different amounts of water (sprinkler heads a placed randomly) different amounts of nutrition (depending on where I am standing when I spray fertilizer).and yet they do everything at exactly the same time and mimic the movement of each other... For example,(1) every leaf of each plant faces the direction of the corresponding leaf on the other one (and these are not necc. in the direction of the sunlight), (2) they have exactly the same amount of leaves, (3) when one begins to put out a new leaf the other does the same on the same day,(4) when one puts out an inflorescence, they other does as well on the same day,(5) the inflors. open at virtually exactly the same time..and this behavior has been going on for 2 months. Is this just a coincidence or has this "sychronized" behavior been seen before? Thanks Marc Burack

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