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Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D
Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences
Smith College
Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane
Northampton, MA 01063
email: mmarcotr@smith.edu
voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744
www.smith.edu/garden
www.science.smith.edu/~mmarcotr
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"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with
the beauty of flowers and never succeeding."
Marc Chagall
>>> ken@spatulacity.com 10/06/03 11:52AM >>>
Have list members noticed much variability in the shape of
Amorphophallus
konjac leaflets? I got a handful of offsets from a friend, which
looked
like konjac (I saw the mother corm) and tossed them in with mine. Now I
have
a bunch of plants with significantly rounded leaflets compared with
the
konjacs they're growing with. They're so different that I can easily
spot
them amongst the 50+ offsets that I grew this year.
My friend's corm flowered this spring. I've asked him to describe it
and I
gave him a link to the konjac page on aroid.org. He's not an aroider
by
nature and acquired the corm randomly from someone in the cactus club,
I
think.
Thanks in advance,
Ken Mosher
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