Odd leaf production on Colocasia.

From: ju-bo at msn.com (ju-bo at msn.com) on 2008.08.12 at 09:06:04(18368) ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:17:26 -0400 > From: pugturd at alltel.net > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Odd behavior on Colocasia. Dear Brian, I THINK this is a cultivar of Colocasia esculenta, probably one of the vars. introduced by Walter Pagels from Asia, not a hybrid. It looks to me that this interesting little leaf emerging from high on a petiole of a previous/older leaf might be just an artifact of an extra-long sheath on the older leaf, a sort of occasionel ''deformity'' in this cultivar, if you will. Try doing a dissection with a razor blade (you will have to ''sacrifice'' the leaf with the smaller leaf emerging). Cut the old larger leaf off as low to the ground/roots/corm as possible. Try looking carefully for the ''seam'' of the leaf sheath along the old leaf, you would start at where the new small leaf has emerged and work/search downward. Then try cutting cross-sections of the larger leafs petiole, working downward from where the new leaf emerged, determining if a smaller petiole of the smaller leaf does in fact occur INSIDE the closed sheath of the older, larger petiole. Let us know what you discover! Good Growing, Julius +More >> I have what I believe is a hybrid Colocasia used as a food crop growing > in my display. I got the plant several years ago and it has just > recently started behaving oddly by putting out new leaves and as the > old leaves grow a knot forms at the upper portion of the petiole and a > new leaf emerges out. I am guessing that this leaf and petiole is acting > similar to a runner. So far it has not formed new plants from these > growths but it is untelling as some are fairly new. Has anyone seen this > before? I have been growing a lot of these and this is a first. At the > moment the plant has 3 of these forming. > > Here are the photos of the plant in question. > > http://flickr.com/photos/briansbotanicals/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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