Re: Lesser amorphophalli, corms vs. tubers, etc.

From: "Alan Galloway" <alan at unity.ncsu.edu> on 1998.07.09 at 13:33:24(2444) On Jul 8, 10:59am, Steve Marak wrote: > Subject: Lesser amorphophalli, corms vs. tubers, etc. > Re Amorph. konjac ... Dewey, you mentioned Fanny Phillips in one of your > notes. Does she still grow the "giant" and "dwarf" forms of konjac that > she had, and have these proven consistent in their growth and flowering? > I've always been curious as to whether these were genetic or > environmental, since aroids seem willing to flower small when happy. Steve, Last year I had one of my konjacs to set seed and this year I have about 150 seedlings and at this stage there is quite a bit of diversity in this batch of seedlings. There appears to be some dwarfs, some giants, some pink-petioled, some red-petioled, and even a couple with twisted leaves. I would definitely agree that these variances are due to genetics. It appears that I have been successful in getting one of my paeoniifolius to set seed this year -- I should be able to collect a few hundred seed later this year. It will interesting to see if this batch of paeoniifolius seed will give any variant forms. > +More > Dewey, is your marvelous parvulus the same one I am growing, i.e. the one > that is something else very similar, or a true parvulus? On returning > home, I noticed that my plant, apparently in envy of yours, has now > started several more petioles. The effect of about 5 petioles with that > remarkable coloration is very beautiful. "Marvelous parvulus" or whatever name this plant will end up having is one of the prettier Amophophallus. I shared a piece of this with Dewey sometime ago. I received my original tuber from another list member simply labeled as "Red Leaf". At one time there was a photo of this plant on the IAS ID site and it was temporarily identified as A. parvulus, but I think that plant was back into the "not sure" category. I highly suspect that this is the same plant that you are growing. > > What can you Amorph. experts tell me about "Leo Song #1" and "Leo Song > #2"? I was given these during my travels, and know nothing about them > except that LS #2 may be a white-stemmed konjac. Will someone enlighten > me, please? Some years ago I received some of these "Leo Song" tubers and I have been sharing them each year, so you may have the same ones that I have. If I am not mistaken, Wilbert did say that LS #2 was a white-stemmed konjac from Kinabalu. Alan -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Galloway alan_galloway@ncsu.edu Computing Services, Information Technology Campus Box 7109 North Carolina State University (phone) 919-515-5483 Raleigh, NC 27695-7109 (fax) 919-515-3787

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