hybrids, ramblings, spare pollen

From: magrysbo at shu.edu on 2001.06.22 at 05:22:45(6825) One more note as I finish reading my messages this evening and this strong coffee. When you pollinate a titanum you will always have pollen to spare. Don't neglect to propagate the pure species, but why not throw the extra on a waiting konjac, or paeonifolius, albispathus, gigas, or Typhonium? Two words for you (despite Wilbert's objections) - extremely marketable. Bonaventure Magrys

From: mburack at mindspring.com on 2001.06.22 at 16:03:09(6833) Marketable....maybe...... doable.......doubtful...... I have attempted hybridization of amorphophallus 9 times at this point...... It has never worked..... As I have said before..... probably the only shot of ANY kind of hybrid.... are "like" amorphs (ex. koratensis x opertus, paeoniifolius x prainii, etc.....) I have attempted those "long stretch" crosses (konjac x paeoniifolius, etc.... and they just dont seem to work). Everyone must understand that IF these plants hybridized easily.... you would see a slew of them from aroid aficianados..... notice how you dont see them very often....... thats because you can "throw a little extra pollen on something"..... but what you will most likely get will be an "infloresence with some pollen on it"....nothing more... +More aroid-l@mobot.org wrote: > One more note as I finish reading my messages this evening and this strong coffee. When you pollinate a titanum you will always have pollen to spare. Don't neglect to propagate the pure species, but why not throw the extra on a waiting konjac, or paeonifolius, albispathus, gigas, or Typhonium? Two words for you (despite Wilbert's objections) - extremely marketable. Bonaventure Magrys

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2001.06.23 at 05:14:45(6842) I have no REAL objections, mind you. I am just putting things in certain words to get juices running. The one thing I worry about is the nomenclatural consequences of what people haphazardly do. A plant name should UNAMBIGUOUSLY refer to an entity (a species or cultivar or whatever). The Name Game HAS its purposes, how tiresome it sometimes is to people. Wilbert +More ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Sent: vrijdag 22 juni 2001 7:22 Subject: hybrids, ramblings, spare pollen > One more note as I finish reading my messages this evening and this strong > coffee. When you pollinate a titanum you will always have pollen to spare. > Don't neglect to propagate the pure species, but why not throw the extra on > a waiting konjac, or paeonifolius, albispathus, gigas, or Typhonium? Two > words for you (despite Wilbert's objections) - extremely marketable. > Bonaventure Magrys > >

From: StellrJ at aol.com on 2001.06.24 at 05:31:11(6863) In a message dated Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:03:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mburack@mindspring.com writes: << thats because you can "throw a little extra pollen on something"..... but what you will most likely get will be an "infloresence with some pollen on it"....nothing more... Darwin discussed this in _On the Origin of Species_. One of the ways plants separate themselves from their congeners is by rejecting foriegn pollen. Think about it...if all sympatric plants in a genus accepted each other's pollen, soon you would have just one (probably highly variable) species in that region. Nature very seldom hybridizes. Jason Hernandez +More Naturalist-at-Large

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