Re: hardiness of Sauromatum

From: Steve Marak samarak at arachne.uark.edu> on 2000.07.29 at 16:34:41(5174) On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Diana Reeck wrote: > I am looking for information about the hardiness of Sauromatum venosum. I > am writing up my fall plant list, and would like some to get anyone's > personal experiences with this. Thanks Diana, I and a number of others grow it easily in USDA zone 6 (NW Arkansas, in my case), and it's survived overnight lows of -20 F (-28 C) with no problem. Even the smallest offsets have no trouble with the cold. I think I remember Panayoti Kelaidis in Denver telling me that it was hardy there (yes, "hardy in Denver" again), and I recall that some I sent Ellen Hornig years ago survived at least their first winter in upstate New York. Since Wilbert insists on sinking this into Typhonium, and Typhonium has also been a popular topic lately, this gives me a perfect segue to hardiness in Typhoniums in general. Besides venosum and giganteum - which produces marvelously tropical-looking leaves when happy outdoors - what are the coldest growing and hardiest members of the genus? Steve +More -- Steve Marak -- samarak@arachne.uark.edu

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