[Aroid-l] Pinellia Polly Spout

From: Tony Avent <Tony at plantdelights.com> on 2011.04.19 at 15:14:59(22032) Aroiders: I posted last summer that we discovered, thanks to a customer, that the self-sterile Pinellia 'Polly Spout' (P. tripartita x P. pedatisecta), would set seed when planted near another pinellia species. We planted an isolation block of P. 'Polly Spout' and P. cordata. By the end of last summer, all of the dozen seedlings from P. 'Polly Spout' flowered and appeared clonal, with no sign of P. cordata. This spring they have re-emerged and indeed still appear clonal. We had assumed last summer that they were in fact clones of P. 'Polly Spout', so we planted them in a row beside P. 'Polly Spout' to be sure. Now that they are in flower, they are identical to the original clone except for their size, which is uniformly 50% large than the parent...quite unexpected. There is no difference in growing conditions. I have posted images at http://gallery.plantdelights.com/Aroids/Copy_of_Pinellia_Polly_Spout_small_Polly_Spout_x_cordata_large_leaf http://gallery.plantdelights.com/Aroids/Copy_of_Pinellia_Polly_Spout_small_vs_Polly_Spout_x_cordata_large_flower2 Tony Avent +More Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdelights.com phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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