FW: Source of My Titan

From: "Hetterscheid, W." Hetter at Plantscope.nl> on 1999.08.03 at 23:06:54(3558) Whaddayaknow! I myself was on this Symon/Hetterscheid/Attenborough expedition....... We collected the vast majority (90%) of the titanum-seeds from a gigantic infructescence you can see in Aroideana 19, page 14, fig. 18. I don't right now remember the infruct photo in Attenborough's book, but you can compare it to the one in Aroideana and see if it matches. I can tell you all that the thrill of running into such a giant fruiting monster was overwhelming.........and then we started to pick the berries for you people....... That was a big job. When we washed them in water to clean off the flesh of the berries we all got terribly itchy hands. The things we do....... +More So that was the source of your titanum. What worries me a little, people, is the great confusion already noticable here and there about the sources of aroid material. I sure hope you all make it a goal to keep track of your sources as much as possible. I myself depend on you all to do this when I distribute material from the research collection. In the event of losing valuable material here in Holland, I will be able to trace you hoping to be able to get something back to make up for the loss. In such cases keeping the data with the plants you recieve IS important. O.k., enough whining....... See you in St. Louis. Say, is it really 40+ Celsius out there? Cheers, Wilbert -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Craig M. Allen [mailto:cm_allen@yahoo.com] Verzonden: maandag 2 augustus 1999 16:54 Aan: Wilbert Hetterscheid Onderwerp: Source of My Titan > ---------- > From: Craig M. Allen[SMTP:CM_ALLEN@YAHOO.COM] > Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 4:54:10 PM > To: Wilbert Hetterscheid > Subject: Source of My Titan > Auto forwarded by a Rule > I guess if you have gotten my e-mail you have seen the one that David Leedy posted on Aroid-L. It makes me curious about the exact source of my titanum seeds. My boss don't give much information when I received them. Much of what I heard came from Dewey and other aroiders. I'm always interested in every detail of information to permanently record with the plants. I've read both Dr. Symon's and your articles in Aroidiana, Vol. 17, 1994 This is how I have the accession is listed: "Don Evans, received 12 seeds from Wilbert Hetterscheid & Dr. James Symon expedition, wild collected in Burma. 9/13/93" Someone told me that the seeds that were collected came from the inflorescence in Attenborough's book 'The Private Life of Plants'. This doesn't seen likely, though it makes a great story. I think theu meant the infructescence shown several pages later, which I'm told is Symon's photo. I know that my boss, Don Evans, donated some money to fund acquiring the seeds. We also received the 8 seeds of Amorphophallus gigus at the same time. I would think that our seeds came from the following trip: "Then Jim Simon offered to get seed for all interested (I think this was either before or during the Hetterscheid trip, but a young friend of Simon's in Sumatra was the recipient of the funds), and we each put up $100 for ten seed (I think we also got some seed of 1 or 2 other rare Amorphophallus). The other ten A. titanums I donated were from this group" I'm just curious as hell. I think I'm getting overly fond of this group of plants. If you ever hear about sources of any of the other giant species, let me know, I haven't had an amorphophallus fix for over a year. Your friend, Craig === Craig M. Allen Conservatory Manager 'Windows to the Tropics' Fairchild Tropical Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road Miami, Florida 33156 Tel. 305-667-1651 ext. 3320 FAX 305-661-8953 email: cm_allen@yahoo.com _____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com

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