Re: RE: RE: [Aroid-l] Wild Titan's ?/YES

From: bonaventure at optonline.net on 2006.08.31 at 01:38:33(14571) Thank you Dave, My intentions were of the more "mad scientist" type. I was hoping there was an excess of pollen, but for my purposes the point is moot anyway. you see I wanted to try to cross titanum with the konjacs that are now taking over my front yard and bloom in spring. I have become jaded and am no longer impressed with their 2 foot high inflorescences and 4 foot high and wide leaves. I am though still impressed by their extreme hardiness and reliability of bloom and their powers of vegetative increase and I may be a bit insane in wanting a larger version with possibly cold tolerence plus hybrid vigor to boot. Bonaventure +More ----- Original Message ----- Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:02 pm Subject: RE: RE: [Aroid-l] Wild Titan's ?/YES To: Discussion of aroids > This posed an interesting question for us here at the Garden. Normally > our collections policy is based on institutional distributions. The > complexities of international treaties, their interpretation and > publicopinion mean that institutions often need to be > conservative in their > actions. While this can mean that distributions of seed, plants > (including excess plants and divisions) or plant parts may not be > available to those who might be efficacious at contributing to real > meaningful conservation efforts-the serious hobbyists-this is not > uniform in the botanic garden world, but I suspect that it might get > more so with time. It is probably axiomatic that the more > threatened a > species is, the more difficulties there will be in trying to > save it. > > In this instance though, we did save pollen from the recent > blooming of > our A. titanum and because of its relatively short viability, are > willing to possibly make it available to both institutions and the > serious hobbyist. Of course this will be on a case-by-case > basis, but > please, anyone serious, dedicated and fortunate enough to be > able to > bloom one should contact us. > > Dave Horak > > BBG > > -----Original Message----- > From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com > [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of > bonaventure@optonline.net > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 1:45 AM > To: Discussion of aroids > Subject: Re: RE: [Aroid-l] Wild Titan's ?/YES > > > > > Is there available any saved pollen of Amorphophallus titanum > for possible future Amorphophallus cross pollinations to be done by > serious hobbyists in their own collections? > > Bonaventure Magrys > Cliffwood Beach, NJ USA > > _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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