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Re: Seeds of A. titanum and possible propagation
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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
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> 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
>
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> malkmus@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de
> Tel.: ++49-6131-392902 Fax: ++49-6131-395548
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