Re: [Aroid-l] Number of A. titanums in existence.

From: "E.Vincent Morano" <ironious2 at yahoo.com> on 2010.01.11 at 21:56:27 Ive had in my possession and sold over 70 of these titanium tubers. The person I got them from had over 3,000 plants. It was EGF Orchids. In fact they still have a few. So to say the least, those numbers are just slightly off :-) I refuse to participate in the in the recession. --- On Sun, 1/10/10, Don Martinson <llmen@wi.rr.com> wrote: From: Don Martinson <llmen@wi.rr.com> Subject: [Aroid-l] Number of A. titanums in existence. To: "aroid-l@gizmoworks.com" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com> Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010, 2:28 PM The A. titanum at our local museum in Milwaukee is about to bloom. http://www.mpm.edu/exhibitions/featured/titan-arum/2010/ An article in the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel stated : > The museum's corpse flower, which has never bloomed before, has its roots in > Sumatra, and only about 140 of the plants are known to exist in the world, > according to Neil Luebke, curator of botany at the museum and the stinky > plant's guardian. While I realize they aren't selling these at K-Mart as yet, the figure of 140 seems rather low to me, at least when you add in all the smaller tubers that seem to be available (at least for a price) as of late. Is this truly an accurate guess as to the number of titanums in existence? Don Martinson Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mailto:llmen@wi.rr.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --0-1226751148-1263246987=:85568----===============8486312711765965682==

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