Re: Titan in Madison

From: Susan Cooper coops at execpc.com> on 2001.06.20 at 06:44:29(6760) I was looking through the archives of Aroid-L and found this from Lord P in 1998: Whaddayaknow! I myself was on this Symon/Hetterscheid/Attenborough +More expedition....... We collected the vast majority (90%) of the titanum-seeds from a gigantic infructescence you can see in Aroideana 19, page 14, fig. 18. I don't right now remember the infruct photo in Attenborough's book, but you can compare it to the one in Aroideana and see if it matches. I can tell you all that the thrill of running into such a giant fruiting monster was overwhelming.........and then we started to pick the berries for you people....... That was a big job. When we washed them in water to clean off the flesh of the berries we all got terribly itchy hands. The things we do....... The record setting Amorphophallus titanum that recently bloomed in Madison, Wisconsin came from seed credited to Lord P. Way to go!

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