Re: AMORPHOPHALLUS @ Fairchild Tropical Garden

From: "Bonaventure W Magrys" magrysbo at shu.edu> on 2000.05.03 at 23:57:50(4531) Donna, Just joking about the cultivar names. But doesn't one have to make the grex name official. This is what is done in orchid registery and cultivar (or clonal) names are then "fixed" at judging when an official award is given to it (or not) at a judging center or show. Bonaventure +More >>>>>>>>>>SelbyHort@aol.com on 05/02/2000 05:58:44 PM Please respond to aroid-l@mobot.org To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L cc: (bcc: Bonaventure W Magrys/ADM/SHU) Subject: Re: AMORPHOPHALLUS @ Fairchild Tropical Garden Just a note about Bonaventure's example with the A. Bloody Giant 'The Best'. To register a cultivar, you will need to select a clone from the cross and apply a cultivar name. Unfortunately you can't use names like 'The Best', or 'Biggest and Greatest' or anything like that when officially registering your cutivars....sorry. Please check with me if you have questions about naming your cultivars and getting them registered. Donna Atwood Selby Gardens 811 S. Palm Ave. Sarasota, FL 34236 USA << for example you may, if you choose to do so, in some centralized registry for aroid hybrids, register Amorphophallus Bloody Giant [A.(gigas x haematospadix)]. In this case pollen was donated by the haematospadix. My clone of course would be A. Bloody Giant 'The Best' (note single quotation marks). The offspring will be all individual clones with variability and any vegetative propagation of an y will still carry the clonal name. Offspring of a self pollination would be labeled as A. Bloody Giant ('The Best' x self) and can each be given individual clonal names. Offspring of a sibling cross, eg. 'The Best' x 'FTG's Super-vigorous' would still be considered of the same grex, that is Amorphophallus Bloody Giant. >>

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