Re: AMORPHOPHALLUS @ Fairchild Tropical Garden

From: "Bjoern Malkmus" bjoern.malkmus at verwaltung.uni-mainz.de> on 2000.04.27 at 22:21:51(4448) Neil, you are talking about an ideal world where never ever plant labels get lost or mixed up. If you are going to hybridize Amorphophallus in your own cultivation, this is perfectly ok and might result in some beautiful new clones. +More BUT as soon as these hybrids are going to be distributed to other aroiders, then this will have fatal effects sooner or later. Even the best documents and records will get lost in the one or other cultivation some day, there's no doubt about it. Just face the fact, that plants will be mixed up in the ongoing distribution and redistribution process and not all of us have the possibilities nor knowlegdes to make a proper identification for unlabeled Amorphophallus. Thus it is very likely for example that a hybrid which is phenotypical (don't know the exact word in English = appearance of a plant) close to a species might be re-distributed as the species ... Even to think about it seems a nightmare to me. > If documented, what is the problem with trying to hybridize > Amorphophallus? > (BTW the plural of Amorphophallus is Amorphophallus) Isn't it Amorphophalli ??? Cheers, Bj?rn Malkmus

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