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  Re: [Aroid-l] variegated Xanthosoma/Eduardo Gon.
From: "Steve Ritchey" sritchey at shreve.net> on 2005.07.21 at 23:59:06(13213)
Dear Julius and Eduardo-

Thanks for your help in this matter. After Julius mentioned that the flesh
of atrovirens tubers is yellow I decided to do a "chuba check" and found
this to be true of all the different ones I consider to be atrovirens,
whether they have pockets, flaps, or the blades are shaped like they are
wearing Mouseketeer hats or not.

The tubers of the plant in question have white flesh and the unvariegated
parts of the blades are just green, lacking the the dark bluish tone that
seems typical of atrovirens, so given the options I think Eduardo's opinion
that it's sagittifolium must be correct.

Is jacquini not a valid species and should this be more properly named
maffafa lineatum or something else?

Steve

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