Re: [Aroid-l] New aroid in western Australia?

From: Michael Pascall <mickpascall at hotmail.com> on 2011.01.21 at 01:15:16 Most likely a Typhonium =2C I got a few tubers of a much larger sp.from the Northern Territory a few years ago . They can be very difficult to keep alive . Probably be 10 years before we got a name for it . Alistair Hay is in Columbia at the moment =2C he might have a comment to make on it later . Michael Pascall=2C >=3B Date: Thu=2C 20 Jan 2011 18:07:12 -0600 >=3B From: samarak@gizmoworks.com >=3B To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com >=3B Subject: [Aroid-l] New aroid in western Australia? >=3B >=3B I've seen several web hits today on this topic=2C all of which seem to wind >=3B up at the same text. The articles all call the plant an "arum lily"=2C don't >=3B give a genus or other botanical information=2C say that it was found in the >=3B Kimberly region by Matthew Barrett (Perth's Kings Park &=3B Botanic Garden) >=3B along with other various new species in that remote area=2C and that the >=3B infloresence smells of burnt electrical wire. >=3B >=3B Here's a representative link: >=3B >=3B http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/new-lily-found-in-kimberley-smells-like-burnt-electrics/story-e6frg14u-1225991862095 >=3B >=3B The picture is *an* aroid=2C but no idea if it's that aroid=3B one of the >=3B other articles showed a picture of Zantedeschia aethiopica with the same >=3B text. >=3B >=3B Anyone happen to know more about this? I dug through the KP&=3BBG web site a >=3B bit but didn't find anything. >=3B >=3B Steve >=3B >=3B -- Steve Marak >=3B -- samarak@gizmoworks.com >=3B _______________________________________________ >=3B Aroid-L mailing list >=3B Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com >=3B http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --_4c3c7004-beb0-411f-8a74-8581e8805e00_-- --===============4868512024974632238==

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