>>Oh, c'mon, WHO would want an Ulearum to smell bad??????? I did once cross
Ulearum sagittatum with Amorphophallus bulbifer and the result is indeed a
stinking beauty (Bonaventure and all hybridists, this is your chance to go
mad!!!!). Soon (early April 2003) I will publish the name x Ulephallus
malodorus Hett. You would not believe it but it has large, variegated,
dissected leaves with bulbils all over.............
Lord P.
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> Verzonden: woensdag 15 mei 2002 17:51
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> Onderwerp: Re: Ulearum donburnsii
>
>
> dear betsy,
>
> >The quite small heart shape leaves often have a white or
> cream or green
> >on green contrasting
> >design on the leaves.
>
> thanks for the info on this new plant. however, i must
> disagree with you regarding the size of its leaves. it's
> actually quite big! they must be at least 5" in width (lord
> p., you do the math... :-) for everybody else, that's about
> 12.5 cm). and you are right about the colors, it's a very
> beautiful plant!
>
> and lord p., no smell on this one either...
>
> >The Ulearum that Tsuh Yang is talking about is new to botany. The
> >descriptive paper of this
> >new specie is all but finished by Dr. Croat and will be published
> >sometime soon in
> >'Aroideana.' It comes from very deep in the Ecuadorean
> Amazon Basin and
> >is to be named in
> >honor of our own Don Burns who recently passed away. This is only the
> >second specie of
> >Ulearum known and the first known from Ecuador. I have been growing
> >this plant for a year in
> >my greenhouse and it has not gone dormant and has had many
> flowers. It
> >is quite easy to grow
> >and flowers easily. The flower is not like anything that most have
> >known. It has been in bloom
> >almost the whole time I have had it. It is a flood plane plant which
> >would lead one to believe
> >that it might go dormant and come back as the floods come
> and go, and in
> >nature that may be
> >true. In a pot, I have not had it go dormant. Needless to say, it is
> >terrestrial.
>
> --
> tsuh yang in nyc
>
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