Re: [Aroid-l] Pinellia Polly Spout

From: Derek Powazek <fraying at gmail.com> on 2011.04.20 at 12:36:45(22035) Very cool! I was just thinking about Pinellia myself, as mine just bloomed. I wrote about it here. http://plantgasm.com/archives/4167 It's written for a general audience. Please do let me know if I got anything wrong. Which Pinellia should I get next? Derek +More On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Tony Avent wrote: > Aroiders: > > I posted last summer that we discovered, thanks to a customer, that the s elf-sterile Pinellia 'Polly Spout' (P. tripartita x P. pedatisecta), would set seed when planted near another pinellia species. We planted an isola tion 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 cl onal, with no sign of P. cordata. This spring they have re-emerged and i ndeed 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. 'Pol ly 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 tha n the parent...quite unexpected. There is no difference in growing condi tions. I have posted images at > http://gallery.plantdelights.com/Aroids/Copy_of_Pinellia_Polly_Spout_smal l_Polly_Spout_x_cordata_large_leaf > http://gallery.plantdelights.com/Aroids/Copy_of_Pinellia_Polly_Spout_smal l_vs_Polly_Spout_x_cordata_large_flower2 > > Tony Avent > 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 th ree times" - Avent > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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