RE: Typhonium (giganteum) behaviour

From: Lester Kallus <lkallus at earthlink.net> on 1997.10.09 at 19:17:54(1417) Hey don't complain. I purchased my Arum venosums from Van Bourgondien's just 10 years ago only to learn that they're actually Sauromatum venosums... I mean Typhonium venosums... I mean... This convinces me that there truly is a secret multinational committee that convenes specifically to change the names of a few plants every year. Les +More http://www.i2.i-2000.com/~lkallus/aroids/plnthome.htm At 11:52 AM 10/9/97 -0500, you wrote: >On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Wilbert Hetterscheid wrote: > >> to this monster. And of course Typhonium venosum is an exception >> too.............. >> > >Did anyone else notice how subtly Wilbert slipped this name change in on >us? (Not that we haven't been warned, several times.) Does this mean it's >official now? Sauromatum is no more? Did both species wind up in >Typhonium? > >Ah well, a Sauromatum by any other name would smell as foul. > >Steve > >-- Steve Marak >-- samarak@arachne.uark.edu

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