Re: [aroid-l] Arum key project

From: rajshekhar misra rajshekharmisra at yahoo.com> on 2003.04.23 at 12:37:37(10113) Dear Dr.Peter Here in India, for all practical purposes, we broadly put the colocais types as C.esculenta var.esculenta (big mother corm with very few cormels) and var.antiquorum (with smaller mother corm and several cormels). There are ofcourse phenotypic difference in the plant types also. I would be keen to know more about var.aquatilis. I think I have several collections of it. R.S.Misra +More --- Peter Boyce wrote: > Dear Dr Mishra > > I'm sorry to say that I have very little experience > with these cultigen > groups. However, from my observations in in SE and S > Asia it seems to me > that the cultigens (and perhaps also the land races) > fall roughly into three > vegetative types. > > 1. large, barely offsetting tubers > 2. lots of much-offsetting small tubers > 3. almost no tuber development but much stolon > development > > From a taxonomic perspective I tend to apply the > respective names > > 1. var. antiquorum > 2. var. esculenta > 3. var. aquatilis > > but here hasten to add that I have not made by any > means a deep study of > these 'groups'. > > Peter > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com

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