Re: What Aroids Form Tubers on Leaves?

From: r.e.maynard at att.net on 2000.10.06 at 18:54:50(5519) Dear Mark: Sounds like Bulbifer to me I have some of these plants that develops a White spathe w/redish color inside of spath. On first bulb I purchased it tow years to get a spathe and produces a spathe every other year. I saw no leaf this after the spathe which is not unusual due the trmendous energy spent on producing spath. The warts will produce a small plant next spring. I plant the bulblets as soon as mother plant dies. Ray Maynard +More > I just joined this list because I've discovered that many of the plants I > like to grow are aroids! Someone I know just acquired a plant of unknown > identity that looks a lot like pictures I've seen of various Amorphophallus > or Sauromatum, etc. The weird thing about it is that it was forming tubers > at what I'm presuming are the leaf axils (I'm not up on my aroid > anatomy.) The largest one, about 2cm diameter, was right where the leaf > joined the main, upright stem. Is this unusual or are we going to have to > find some other way of identifying it? Unfortunately the thing has just > gone dormant (we hope) or I'd be able to describe the leaf and stem a > little better. We're potting up the main tuber and the little tuber-ettes > to see if they'll grow. Thanks in advance for any info you can share! > > Mark > >

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