Re: [aroid-l] Dracunculus "white form"

From: "Deni Bown" deni at yaxhampark.co.uk> on 2003.02.21 at 17:41:18(10007) Could I just add that it's always been a mystery to me why this magnificent aroid isn't in cultivation. I came across a sizeable colony of the pale form near some polytunnels of tomatoes (i.e. on waste cultivated land) and they were simply gorgeous - very tall plants with huge spadices, some uniformly pale green with either black or yellow spadixes, and others were variously piebald maroon and pale green. Though described by Huxley & Taylor in Flowers of Greece and the Aegean (1977) as "white-flowered", there were no white spathes (or yellow ones)among the ones I saw, though perhaps others colonies show other variants. I have no idea how common this form is, or whether the colony I came across still exists. Years ago someone read my account of this variant in my book (Aroids - Plants of the Arum Family) and contacted me for the location so he could bring back some seed. He promised me some seed in return for the info but I never heard from him again..... There really should be a serious attempt to introduce the pale form into cultivation. If anyone has, or is likely to have seed, PLEASE let me know! Deni Bown +More -----Original Message----- [mailto:aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu]On Behalf Of Wilbert Hetterscheid Sent: 19 February 2003 17:54 To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu Subject: Re: [aroid-l] Dracunculus "white form" Finding is one thing, looking at it another : go to the Dracunculus pages on the IAS website. The form is yellow, by the way. If you go to Crete, contact me. I know where it grows. Lord Secret > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu > [mailto:aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu]Namens Benoit Mouroux > Verzonden: dinsdag 18 februari 2003 16:54 > Aan: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu > Onderwerp: [aroid-l] Dracunculus "white form" > > > Hello all, > > could anybody help me for my search for dracunculus vulgaris > "white form" ? > > this form is from "crjte", a mediterrannean island and seems > to be very hard > to find. > > benoit > france > > > Benoit MOUROUX > 30, rue thibaudeau > 86000 POITIERS > FRANCE > http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Amorphophallus_et_araceae/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?pageþatures/junkmail >

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