Re: More Synandrospadix

From: "Eduardo Goncalves" edggon at hotmail.com> on 2001.06.13 at 15:00:55(6699) No, despite it is considered strongly toxic to mammals, it is usually attacked by another parasites. My biggest tuber of Synandrospadix vermitoxicus (approx. 15 cm in diameter, before the attack) were attacked by an unknown primary agent during its dormancy (maybe nematodes, but I couldn?t find the monsters), so it was followed by fungus, bacteriae and even termites (believe me!), so it lost approximately 50% of its weight. Now I think it isn?t lost (I scrapped the tubers, put them in a Temik solution and sealed with fungicides). I only hope the the plant survive the chemical attack! I have never seen a massive attack like this in a tuberous aroid, so the poison is not so effective. Anyway, do not eat your tubers! Eduardo. +More >From: magrysbo@shu.edu > >Yes, but will they repel #!**%!!#@%ing nematodes? > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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