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  Aroids in the News, Part II
From: ted.held at us.henkel.com on 2006.12.20 at 21:23:35(14970)
Those fascinating aroids are making
the popular science news as well. I have just come across an article about
the production of warmth in aroid flowers in a British magazine called
New Scientist (14 October, 2006).

The article is entitled "Hot flowers"
and covers some territory familiar to those on this list and those who
have read Deni Bown's excellent aroid book. This time we have some specific
names: the Dead Horse Arum, Philodendron bipinnatifidum, Philodendron solimoesense,
and Symplocarpus foetidus [skunk cabbage] with a nice picture of this last.
(Did the author and I get all the names spelled correctly?)

Here is a quotation summarized from
Roger Seymour of the University of Adelaide that will give a sense of the
tone:

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