big box "amorphophallus"

From: cokerra at bellsouth.net (Russell Coker) on 2008.02.04 at 19:16:52(17045) Happy Mardi Gras. I was at Home Depot today and took a minute to cruise the boxes of prepackaged bulbs. To my surprise I found one labeled "Amorphophallus". The picture on the front appeared to be paeoniifolius, but I never could find anything that identified a particular species. When I turned the package over to examine the tuber it was obviously not an Amorphophallus, but Scadoxus. To make matters worse, there was also a box full of Scadoxus bulbs a couple of feet away! These boxes of bulbs were all from van Bourgondien. Oddly enough I get their wholesale and retail catalogues, and while they list the usual Aroids like Caladiums and "elephant ears", and even now list some Arisaemas at horrific prices, I don't recall ever seeing any Amorphophallus offered. I'd be curious if anyone else has seen these, and to know if they are actually Amorphophallus or something else. Russell Coker +More Mobile, Alabama (where its 70 degrees and the Japanese Magnolias are in full bloom) zone 8b

From: ronmchatton at aol.com (ronmchatton at aol.com) on 2008.02.05 at 03:46:17(17047) While I haven't seen these bulbs this year, Van Bourgondien as well as SunBulb have marketed Amorphophallus bulbifer in this fashion in the past.? Van Bourgondien has also sold Typhonium venosum that way as well but not for about the last 10 years or so. Ron McHatton +More Central Florida, Zone 9 -----Original Message----- From: Russell Coker To: Discussion of aroids Sent: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 2:16 pm Subject: [Aroid-l] big box "amorphophallus" Happy Mardi Gras. I was at Home Depot today and took a minute to cruise the boxes of prepackaged bulbs. To my surprise I found one labeled "Amorphophallus". The picture on the front appeared to be paeoniifolius, but I never could find anything that identified a particular species. When I turned the package over to examine the tuber it was obviously not an Amorphophallus, but Scadoxus. To make matters worse, there was also a box full of Scadoxus bulbs a couple of feet away! These boxes of bulbs were all from van Bourgondien. Oddly enough I get their wholesale and retail catalogues, and while they list the usual Aroids like Caladiums and "elephant ears", and even now list some Arisaemas at horrific prices, I don't recall ever seeing any Amorphophallus offered. I'd be curious if anyone else has seen these, and to know if they are actually Amorphophallus or something else. Russell Coker Mobile, Alabama (where its 70 degrees and the Japanese Magnolias are in full bloom) zone 8b _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080204/00c5354e/attachment.htm

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