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Re: Congratulations, literature mentions
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From: Tom Croat <croat at mobot.org> on 1997.02.19 at 16:48:50(390)
Dear Stacy: That is exciting news. I don't believe that thermogenesis
is known in Monstera but I have always suspected that they were beetle
pollinated and probably were thermogenic. Can you provide any
additional details?
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Tom Croat, MO.Bot., St. Louis, MO.
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> Steve-
> What you mentioned about thermogenesis in plants is very interesting - I was
> talking to a man who helps maintain all of the plants in the Indiana
> University greenhouse and he had mentioned to me a funny thing that he
> noticed just recently - the Monstera (exact species unknown to me) that is
> about the size if a tree growing on other trees in the greenhouse apparently
> heated up so much that he felt it from a distance, actually measured the
> temperature, and he said it registered about 94F (is my memory correct here?
> I'll have to ask him again)!
> Stacy
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