Gonatopus

From: "Don Bittel" <dbittel at treco.net> on 1997.05.17 at 05:38:32(750) Hello all! Gonatopus was mentioned recently as a genus that forms new plants from dropped leaflets, and that there were two species. I have three different plants and would like help in identifying them. The first species came from Fairchild TG and I assume to be G. boivinii. It has a dark leafstem with banding of dark purple and silver-grey. The spathe is very light green-white with tiny flecks of dark purple lines. The second species is probably a type of boivinii, but it is very different. The colors are reversed, with the leafstem being very light silver-grey in color, with just a little of dark purple banding splashed around. The spathe is very dark, with the dark purple lines covering almost the entire spathe. The background is still light green, and the spadixes appear to be the same. I call this one 'Grey Ghost'. The third species is very different than the first two. It is much larger in all respects, and the color of the leafstem is a very pretty shade of green, like the color of fresh garden peas. I call this one 'Jolly Green Giant'! There is no mottling of other colors at all. The plants get almost twice as big as the other two, and it still hasn't flowered yet. It originally came from Scott Hyndman. One other question about Amorpho. bulbifer. I had two flowers this spring, the larger one having almost no smell, even after 5 days, and the smaller and later, one which had a dead goat smell on the second day. It could be noticed at least 100 feet away and promptly got cut off and thrown out in a far away place. These are from the same clone, and were identical except for size. Why the difference in smell? Thanks! Don Bittel +More dbittel@treco.net

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