Amorphophallus muelleri

From: Don Burns <burns at mobot.org> on 1998.06.12 at 00:15:46(2272) I have a dozen or so A. muelleri all started from seed from Wilbert or from small tubers picked up elsewhere. The plants this year are becoming larger now and a couple of distinct differences are showing yp. The plants all seem to have very similar coloring and marking on the petioles, and of course all are growing bulbils. And the leaf geometry is generally the same. The differences are in the leaf coloring and the size of the leaf segments. For the lack of a better term, group 1 has significantly darker leaves and smaller leaf segments as compared to group 2. The overall size of the leaves are about the same in both groups, but the petioles of group 2 are shorter. A. muelleri has one of the wider SE Asian geographical ranges of the genus. Are the differences I am seeing related to this wide distribution? Oops, I forgot to mention that the darker green small segment leaved plants were all grown from seed from Wilbert. All the plants are being grown onn the same table, in identical medium, and are receiving the same light exposure. Don +More Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b

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