Re: Seeds of A. titanum and possible propagation

From: "Clark Weston" <bk161 at rgfn.epcc.edu> on 1998.10.03 at 22:41:32(2649) Unhappily I have no plant material to exchange as I am a newcomer to the aroids, but I am interested in A. titanum seeds. Perhaps I could trade a little US currency? Clark Weston +More ---------- > > Dear Aroiders, > > as growing season is coming to its end this year I checked my plant > material which I would like to trade this year. > > Here is what I can offer: > Amorphophallus rivieri var. konjac - 1 year old rhizome tubers > Amorphophallus titanum - seeds (from this fall) > Arum maculatum var. imaculatum - adult tubers, flowered this year > Calla palustris - seeds (from this fall) > Dracunculus vulgaris - adult corms, flowered this year > [and probably Dracunculus canariense - 2 year old corms] > > Material will be available by the end of October. By the experiences > I made last year there shoud not be any problem in exportation of > these plants to the US. > If anyone of you should be interested, please contact me at: > malkmus@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de > > I am specially interested in: > Amorphophallus spec. > (except bulbiferum, konjac, maximus, muelleri, titanum) > > Arisaema spec. > (except triphyllum, dracontium, candidum) > > Arum spec. > (except maculatum, elongatum, italicum) > > Biarum, Dracontium, Pseudodracontium and probably others as well. > > To make another contribution to this discussion list, following an > expericence I made with a possible new (?) propagation method of > Amorphophallus titanum: > In October last year I made two rectangular cuts of about 1cm each in > the center of one corm of A. titanum (which was about 10 cm in > diameter). I left it for two weeks at the air to let dry wounds a > little bit and hence replanted the corm. In late May this year the > plant showed first signs of new life, trying to produce "some kind of > leaves" (which were at that point rather "miscreated"), yet in > the course of this summer three healthy leaves were produced, each > coming out of a different part from the top of the corm. When I > removed the earth this month three independent "corms" could be seen, > each of them already about 2 cm in diameter, which should lead into > three separate plants at the end of its current growing period. > My question to you is: does anyone has made a similar experience (by > cutting or accidentally hurting corms) ? > Maybe this could be a safe and easy method to propagate this specie. > Couldn't it be ? I didn't want to risk all of my plants, so I tried > it on only one of them ... and until now I used this method only to > propagate several taxa of some genus of Hyacinthaceae. Please let me > know you annotations or experiences. > > Best wishes > > > > Bjorn Malkmus > International Relations Office > Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz > D-55099 Mainz > Germany > > ************************************************************************* > malkmus@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de > Tel.: ++49-6131-392902 Fax: ++49-6131-395548 > ************************************************************************* > >

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