Re: [Aroid-l] giant form A. paeoniifolius

From: <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2009.09.30 at 13:47:12(20100) Dear Derek and Friends, I recall a photo taken at Fairchild Gardens in Miami in an EARLY "Aroideana'' of our old friend Craig Phillips standing under the canopy of a leaf of what was labeled then as A. titanum, this was later  corrected, it was A. paeoniifolius.  Craig stood at LEAST 6' tall, and the canopy began to spread a little  OVER his head, so the petiole MUST have been about 6' 4" tall, maybe 5" in dia. at its base? A couple/three years ago, at the Sept. aroid show and sale, I assisted Ron Weeks and others in hauling a HUGE tub with a GIANT plant of A. paeoniifolius from the rare plant house at Fairchild up and into the ''display hall'', this plant easily rivaled in size the one in the old photo, and, who knows, might even have been the SAME plant as was shown in the photo! So--we know that a giant exists/used to exist at Fairchild, Scott USED to have a couple, and there were a few more hanging around in collections a few years ago. I don`t know about the blooming of these giant plants, I`ll ask my buddy Bobby, he just MIGHT know, or maybe our resident expert Wilbert may chime in? I USED to be able to purchase soft-ball sized A. paeon. corms at an Indian Grocery on Okeechobee Blvd. here in W.P.B. (I still get eddoes, Colocasia esculenta ''antiquorom'' there!), but I have not seen them available in a couple of years, I must ask the owner where he used to obtain them, they were VERY popular with folks from the S. India/Cylon areas, used seasonally at weddings/feasts, called ''suran'', also available cooked and in cans. I hope that this helps! Good Growing, all. Julius HTML +More From: derek@horticulturist.com To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:19:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] giant form A. paeoniifolius Re: [Aroid-l] giant form A. paeoniifolius Hello Julius and everyone,   I wonder if these giant corms are theresult of the breeding program in the Indian subcontinent. Please see backissues of Aroideana on this. If so, I suspect that one of the side results ofthe program has been to minimize the likelihood of flowering of these corms. Iknow this to be the case for some of the named cultivars.   I find this size corm in UK greengrocersin the summer, and I am told that the general name is suran – perhaps oneof many names in various parts of the subcontinent. I have had no luck so farin finding them in South Florida grocers. Tobe honest, I don’t think that 24” diameter is particularly unusualor “giant” – mine go at least 18” and that is with myappalling growing skills.   Derek   From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com[mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] OnBehalf Of ju-bo@msn.com Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 20098:53 AM To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] giant formA. paeoniifolius   Dear All, This giant form of A. paeoniifolius is available in S. Florida, so there should not be a need to import it.   I'll wait to see if and when the owners/growers shake the dust off their shoesand the sand out of their eyes and reply to this forum!!  I saw a tuber that must have measured close to 24" in dia. some yearsago.   I THINK Scott had and may have sold some plants of this giantclone?? Julius W.P.B., FLORIDA Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:18:40-0500 From: LLmen@wi.rr.com To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] giant form A. paeoniifolius If anyone else would be interested in obtaining tubers or seed, perhapsa group order could be initiated, depending upon the costs. Just a thought, Don Martinson Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mailto:llmen@wi.rr.com On 9/27/09 8:48 AM, "Raj Shekhar Misra"<rajshekharmisra@yahoo.com> wrote: HELLO I HAVE GIANT AMORPHOPHALLUS PAEONIFOLIUS WHICH PRODUCES EDIBLE CORMS WEIGHING15 TO 20KG. Kindly visit my webpage for more information. www.geocities.com/rsmisra2000 <http://www.geocities.com/rsmisra2000> regards RSMisra   Dr.Raj Shekhar Misra Principal Scientist & Head Crop Protection Division Central Tuber Crops Research Institute Sreekariyam, Trivandrum-695017(India) Mobile Phone No. 91-9446557657 Fax-0471-2590063 Phone-0471-2598551 to 2598554 From: Dan Jackson<rupert68@gmail.com> To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Sent: Thursday, 24 September, 200911:03:49 AM Subject: [Aroid-l] giant form A.paeoniifolius hello to the group. I am looking for a source for the large, tallgrowing form of or "giant" form of A. paeoniifolius. can anyone advise? Thanks Rupert rupert68@gmail.com   Now, send attachments up to 25MB with Yahoo! India Mail.Learn how <http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_galaxy_2/*http://in.overview.mail.yahoo.com/photos>. _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l   --_1850dc42-c90d-4ff3-b6f6-24942a4c8cc3_----==============!06833440701076030=

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