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From: "MJ Hatfield" mjhatfield at oneota.org> on 2002.03.25 at 06:03:53(8345) Has anyone observed skunk cabbage, Symplocarpus, flowers in the wild, over a period of time. Every year mine get eaten but not entirely. The spathe gets torn apart and what appears, spit out, in pieces. I started putting tomato cages around the flowers which has worked in the past but this year, whatever was still able to get to one flower. Just curious if anyone else has observed this. Second, I will soon have seeds of Anthurium purpureospathum available. They germinate and grow very easily. If anyone would like some, let me know. The plant gets pretty big but the foliage is nice looking hanging off of a balcony. I can send jpg if you'd like. MJ Hatfield

From: Susan Cox snalice at cnmnetwork.com> on 2002.03.25 at 16:09:57(8347) Hi MJ, I can't say for Symplocarpus, but I have noticed the same with Lycichiton americanum. I found the infructescense torn apart the same way. The only thing I could think of were either skunk, coon or bear. Bear have been known to survive on skunk cabbage when there is little else to eat, however I would think they would be eating on other parts of the plant as I think they usually have less to eat when skunk cabbage is not in infructescence, but is in leaf. Still, is it possible they might like to nibble at the time of the cabbage's fruiting? As for skunk and coon, those are the only other animals (besides deer) that are around here that would be of a size that could tear into the infructescence. Perhaps deer? I hadn't thought of that before. They are not easy to get into at that stage. Do you have deer? Do you have any of these animals around? These four animals frequent my sister's property where the cabbages grow. This is just a big guess because I didn't catch the animal in the act. It's your turn to stay up all night to find out. Be sure and take a flashlight....and Let me know, Sue Cox

From: Susan Cox snalice at cnmnetwork.com> on 2002.03.25 at 16:11:29(8348) MJ, I just noticed that you were referring to the 'spathe' of Symplocarpus. I have not seen this happen. Sue

From: Durightmm at aol.com on 2002.03.25 at 20:25:18(8359) I am not surre which is worse inflorescense eating animails or the annoying and perplexing plows who search for morsels deep in beds. The Texas armordilla is notorious here for disrupting a bed and all potted plants that might unfortunately be stting on the ground. Wire fences are an answere but when you have many beds it can be a chore. We know the culprit here but there is little one can do except wait out the rite of spring.!! Joe

From: "MJ Hatfield" <mjhatfield at oneota.org> on 2004.02.04 at 21:15:37(11073) Who would ever guess that that little inflorescence on Typhonium violaefolium could smell up and entire room? And once again, it caught me. I first went looking for a tree frog that somehow showed up in the sunspace this winter. I assumed it had died. And a question; how should Spathantheum fallax be stored during dormancy? Thanks, MJ Hatfield +More Where winter is knee deep in the frozen stuff, but very beautiful

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid (prive)" <hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2004.02.06 at 15:50:03(11094) And who do you think knows about storing Spathantheum fallax on aroid-l.........said a person arrogantly....... But maybe I can help: you can store it dry and cool, NOT warm. It will poke its nose up around now each year. Glad you caught T. violiaefolium smelling. There are those who claim it has no scent at all. Go figure! Lord P +More > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu > [mailto:aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu]Namens MJ Hatfield > Verzonden: woensdag 4 februari 2004 22:16 > Aan: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu > Onderwerp: [aroid-l] 2 things > > > Who would ever guess that that little inflorescence on Typhonium > violaefolium could smell up and entire room? And once again, > it caught me. I > first went looking for a tree frog that somehow showed up in > the sunspace > this winter. I assumed it had died. > > And a question; how should Spathantheum fallax be stored > during dormancy? > > Thanks, > MJ Hatfield > Where winter is knee deep in the frozen stuff, but very beautiful > >

From: "MJ Hatfield" <mjhatfield at oneota.org> on 2004.02.07 at 04:22:10(11108) Thanks Lord P, As to the Spathantheum fallax dormancy storage; how cool is cool? Refrigerator cool (38F), garage cool (45F) or basement cool (60F)? (Certainly not winter cool -2F) And since it just recently went dormant it may be a bit before it starts to grow again. MJ

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid (prive)" <hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2004.02.08 at 04:24:01(11112) > Thanks Lord P, > As to the Spathantheum fallax dormancy storage; how cool is cool? > Refrigerator cool (38F), garage cool (45F) or basement cool (60F)? > (Certainly not winter cool -2F) And since it just recently > went dormant it > may be a bit before it starts to grow again. I could answer this if you wouldn't use the darn middle-age Fahrenheit, milady! +More But I can tell you how we Europeans indicate temps: cool is between 5 - 15 Celsius (at least in summer it is). Anything below that is cold and above it is.......well, I dunno. If you have a room/space with a stable temp I would choose anything between 10 and 20 Celsius for the Spathantheum. The lower, the longer it will stay dormant but it will finally break dormancy on its own. Here that is usually around early to late February. I do not immediately pot it because this is rather early and there isn't much light around. So I leave it to suffer a little and usually plant when the bud is about 3 cm long (does "centimeter" ring a bell??). Cheerio Lord P > MJ > >

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