Alocasia pollen drop update

From: "thornton-d1 at sky.com" <thornton-d1 at sky.com> on 2016.12.25 at 12:42:41(23726) Hi Christmas morning I was greeted with a shower of pollen from A. macrorhiza but none from amazonica. I collected the pollen as the female flowers were no longer sticky and put in a Phil in the fridge with drying crystals and hope it will produce another flower ---1639451963-1449173716-1482669761=:90806-- ---1639451963-323462977-1482669761=:90806 HTML +More

From: Marek Argent <abri1973 at wp.pl> on 2017.01.05 at 16:41:46(23731) Hello, A. x amazonica is a hybrid (polyploid?) and possibly it doesn't produce pollen, but the female flowers are the most probably fertile. HTML +More Greetings, Araceum On 2016-12-25 13:42, thornton-d1@sky.com wrote: Hi Christmas morning I was greeted with a shower of pollen from A. macrorhiza but none from amazonica. I collected the pollen as the female flowers were no longer sticky and put in a Phil in the fridge with drying crystals and hope it will produce another flower _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --------------31C18FDF9B5B1A2972F47212-- --==============`38448290541648770==

From: "thornton-d1 at sky.com" <thornton-d1 at sky.com> on 2017.01.06 at 20:24:21(23733) Thank you so much for that info. Neither plant seems to have set fruit. The amazonica is producing another flower. Are amazonica always hybrids that can't produce pollen? So I need a species then? How are new varieties produced in mass I wonder for the plant market? They must be pollinated by species and are not self- fertile. I guess Alocasia macrorriza can't pollinate Alocasia amazonica as they are different species. David From: Marek Argent ; HTML +More To: Discussion of aroids ; Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Alocasia pollen drop update Sent: Thu, Jan 5, 2017 4:41:46 PM Hello, A. x amazonica is a hybrid (polyploid?) and possibly it doesn't produce pollen, but the female flowers are the most probably fertile. Greetings, Araceum On 2016-12-25 13:42, thornton-d1@sky.com wrote: Hi Christmas morning I was greeted with a shower of pollen from A. macrorhiza but none from amazonica. I collected the pollen as the female flowers were no longer sticky and put in a Phil in the fridge with drying crystals and hope it will produce another flower _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l ---1621562431-1695375952-1483734261=:26369-- --==============ƒ03449863650230143==

From: Jason Hernandez <jason.hernandez74 at yahoo.com> on 2017.01.11 at 14:49:14(23734) Most plants on the mass market are cloned by tissue culture, which is faster than waiting for seedlings to grow. Jason Hernandez +More -------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 20:24:21 +0000 From: "thornton-d1@sky.com" Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Alocasia pollen drop update To: Aroid Forum Message-ID: <1483734261.26369.YahooMailMobile@web173102.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Thank you so much for that info. Neither plant seems to have set fruit. The amazonica is producing another flower. Are amazonica always hybrids that can't produce pollen? So I need a species then? How are new varieties produced in mass I wonder for the plant market? They must be pollinated by species and are not self- fertile. I guess Alocasia macrorriza can't pollinate Alocasia amazonica as they are different species. David -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20170106/33799cae/attachment.html ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l End of Aroid-L Digest, Vol 145, Issue 4 *************************************** _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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