-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Peter C Boyce
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 2:18 AM
To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu
Subject: Re: [aroid-l] How many leaves??
Hi Ron
Each leaf has their own petiole and each leaf emerges from the tiny
sheath
at the base of the previous, with the primary leaf practically ruptured
basally.
Pete
----- Original Message -----
To:
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [aroid-l] How many leaves??
> Do each of the leaves have their own petiole, or is it one petiole
> branching? Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu
[mailto:aroid-l-owner@lists.ncsu.edu]
> On Behalf Of Peter C Boyce
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 7:58 AM
> To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: [aroid-l] How many leaves??
>
> I can't comment with regard Amorphophallus, but I've had Typhonium
> venosum
> (which the literature often says is solitary leaved) with four leaves
> simultaneously, the largest 1.5 m tall with a leaf blade 1 meter in
> diameter
> and the smallest 0.75 tall and 0.5 cm in diameter and regularly with
> three
> leaves simultaneously. Plants with this many leaves went on to produce
> exceptionally large tubers (maximum 1.25 kg with a diameter of 30.5
cm.
>
> Peter
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> To: "Aroid list"
> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 5:46 AM
> Subject: [aroid-l] How many leaves??
>
>
> > I got two very nice Amorphophallus bulbifers earlier this year from
> the
> > nice people at Gardino Nursery. The Amorphophallus issue of
Aroideana
> says
> > that A. bulbifer has solitary or paired leaves. Both of mine are now
> > growing their *third* leaf (simultaneous, all three are there at
> once)!
> How
> > unusual is that and does it have any implications?
> >
> > -Ken
>
>
>
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