Ripeness of Philodendron infructescences

From: Tizian Weichgrebe <tizian.weichgrebe at uni-oldenburg.de> on 2020.02.23 at 02:14:05(24322) Dear All, I'm going to collect infructescences of various Araceae species in Panama and thought that you could give me some tips on how I determine their ripeness. Especially in Philodendron I have no clue how to know beforehand if seeds are already mature enough to germinate (eventually I want to conduct germination experiments with them). To give you an example, I attach some images of Philodendron fruits and maybe you can tell me if you would consider them ripe. As I came to understand, it may take quite a while for them to ripen. There are very few fruiting Philodendron individuals in the field, so I would like to know without having to open them. I have read that infructescences would crack partly open or smell fragrant. But that is probably true for certain species only. Can you give me any good characteristics of ripe fruits? Any help is highly appreciated! Thank you so much, Tizian +More --------------D6D707EFD0C3C7E3E6A889FD _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --------------D6D707EFD0C3C7E3E6A889FD--

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