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  Re: [Aroid-l] Dracontium amazonense
From: <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2009.10.01 at 20:36:14
Dear Vincent and Scott=2C

Some species of tuberous aroids=2C even in genera such as Amorphophallus=2C Dracontium and Arisaema=2C in which =3B most species in GENERAL go dormant=2C have species which grow in perpetually ''wet'' areas=2C these do no NEED to go dormant. =3B Let the species name ''amazonense'' tip you off! =3B =3B There seldom is a dry period in the Amazon region where this species occurs naturally! =3B =3B There are a few other species of Dracontium (D. spruceanum comes to mind) which can be grown year-long with no dormant period. =3B One can ''force'' dormancy by letting the pot dry out=2C but most growers would not recomend this. =3B The late Lynn Hannon was one who had them grow all year=2C keeping them moist.

Good Growing=2C

Julius

Julius


From: scott.taylor@brevardparks.com
Date: Thu=2C 1 Oct 2009 15:34:11 -0400
To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Dracontium amazonense

I have had this species for some time=2C and I see no pattern to dormancy=2C which sometimes never occurs=2C at least here in Florida. I have heard that drying them out will induce dormancy=2C but have never tried this?
dst
On Oct 1=2C 2009=2C at 2:03 AM=2C E.Vincent Morano wrote:

I have a Dracontium amazonense that I wrote about before. Now it has grown a new leaf alongside the one it had all season. I thought these grew durring the year and then went dormant for the winter months. So first should it be growing a new leaf (a bigger one at that) and second when should/how should I let /make it go dormant?
Thank you.

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