Green Gonatopus Flower

From: "Don Bittel" <dbittel at treco.net> on 1998.09.02 at 03:52:58(2568) Hello all, My green Gonatopus has just put out it's first flower. This is a huge plant that has been getting bigger each year, and this is it's first and only flower. The plant has about 30 stems and went dormant last spring when the G. boivinii were coming up and flowering. It has come out of dormancy just in the past month. The flower is much different from the boivinii flowers. This one has a purple base to the spathe, and then a solid pale green top. The purple base is only 1inch and the green portion is 8 inches. The white spadix is 0.5 inches diameter, and about 7 inches long. The top of the spathe is fused together below the top of the spadix. With the spadix almost as long as the spathe, it is much different than my boivinii types which have a very short spadix and a spathe about 2 to 3 times longer. The flower stalk or peduncle is longer on the green form, but the leaf is about 82 inches and still growing! I call this type 'Jolly Green Giant'. This plant originally came from Scott Hyndman and was his mother plant. I have 2 different types of Gonatopus boivinii. The form with a very light green spathe has a dark leafstem banded with purple and grey. The other form has a very dark spathe, covered with purple, and has a very light grey leafstem. I call this one 'Grey Ghost'. This form seems to have the colors reversed from the first form. So is this 'Jolly Green Giant' a separate species? Is Bogner on aroid-l? Don Bittel +More Palm City, Florida

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