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From: "Malkmus, Bjorn" <malkmus at verwaltung.uni-mainz.de> on 1997.11.06 at 16:32:00(1584) Hello Aroiders, being new to this mailing list I would like to introduce me in a few lines. My name is Bjorn Malkmus, I am living in Frankfurt/Germany, studying Business Adminstration and dedicating most of my free time cultivating all kind of plants, indoors and outdoors (especially Crassulaceae, Cactaceae and various genus' from the Lily family). Since quite some time I am cultivating some species of Aroids, yet I have never put too much attention on them since at my university (University of Mainz) an Amorphophallus titanum flowered about two years ago. Impressing is almost an inproper word, it was just fascinating. Furthermore since this was the first A. titanum in the world, raised from a tissue culture, which flowered (so I was told from a biologist). The next opportunity to see an inflorescence was at the Botanical Garden of the City of Frankfurt last year (Palmengarten der Stadt Frankfurt). Currently they are cultivating 2 adult plants of this specie and a large quantity of younger specimen propagated in vitro (tissue culture). That is when I started to gather some more information about this family. I have to admit that my scientifical knowledge is still at a medium level, however all of the species in my cultivation are thriving better with every other year, reproducing themselves faster as I can manage to provide more space for them (e.g. this year alone I got 70 small corms of Arisaema triphyllum, raised from seeds). As I would like to exchange some of these 'excessive' specimen, here is what I can offer: Arum elongatum Arum italicum Arum maculatum Arisaema triphyllum (~. A. atrorubens) Dracunculus canariense Sauromatum venosum I am looking especially for any specie of the following genus': Amorphophallus, Arisaema, Arum, Sauromatum (if there is any other cultivated than S. venosum) and Dracunulus vulgaris. If there is anyone who would like to make such an exchange, please contact me (Living within Europe would make this a lot easier, though it is possible with the States, too, as exportation of the species I cultivate, does not require CITES. By the way: I raised all of the species mentioned above either from seeds or from stock I was given from Botanical Gardens in Germany, except the D. canariense, from which I took seeds and extracted 7 corms from the wild 3 years ago, taken out of the area of a forthcoming 'proyecto de urbanizacion' on the Canary Islands. Those of you who speak Spanish will know what this means in effect. Since that I have been there a couple of times again and I regret not to have taken all of them. Not a single plant survived. In general local habitats of this specie are declining rapidly due to excessive construction. From 20 habitats I discovered the first time I went to the islands (mainly Tenerife and Gran Canaria), only 12 still exist after only 8 years. No comment. Greetings from Germany Bjorn Malkmus +More malkmus@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de

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