Arisaema from Tanzania

From: Piabinha at aol.com on 2000.07.02 at 03:17:33(4948) in the arid lands catalog (aridlands.com), a nursery that specializes in succulent plants, they list an Arisaema from Tanzania, no species name. does anyone know what it could be? i didn't know there were xerophytic plants in this genus. tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2000.07.02 at 16:07:44(4950) There are about six or so species of Arisaema in Africa BUT, as has been noted before here on the list, you may get to receive Gonatopus instead of Arisaema. Wilbert +More ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Sent: zondag 2 juli 2000 5:17 Subject: Arisaema from Tanzania > in the arid lands catalog (aridlands.com), a nursery that specializes in > succulent plants, they list an Arisaema from Tanzania, no species name. does > anyone know what it could be? i didn't know there were xerophytic plants in > this genus. > > tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA > > > > >

From: "Peter Boyce" Boyce at pothos.demon.co.uk> on 2000.07.02 at 16:09:17(4951) Hi There are a number of options - ulugurense, enneaphyllum or schimperianum are the most likely. These are plants from seasonally wet savannha at high altitudes. Other African species are bottae (Horn of Africa and the Gulf), mooneyanum (Ethiopia), and another (name forgotten) from Somalia. For the record, most of east Africa is not 'arid'; most is seasonally (monsoon) wet grassland and there are large areas of everwet forest, especially at high altitudes. Worth remembering that Saintpaulia originates from Tanzania Pete +More Peter C. Boyce 'Bellagyna' Willow Wren Wharf Hayes Road, Southall Middlesex UB2 5HB U.K. Tel.: (+44) (0) 20 8 573 1213 (home) (+44) (0) 20 8 332 5207 (work) Fax: (+44) (0) 20 8 332 5278 email: boyce@pothos.demon.co.uk (home) p.boyce@rbgkew.org.uk (work)

From: "George R Stilwell, Jr." grsjr at juno.com> on 2000.07.02 at 16:12:22(4953) Tsuh Yang Chen, According to S.J. Mayo and M.G. Gilbert in their "A preliminary revision of Arisaema (Araceae) in tropical Africa and Arabia", Arisaema ulugurense is the only member of the genus that comes from Tanzania. So the probability is high that this is the Aridlands.com plant. It is indeed an unusual species. Ray Stilwell +More GRSJr@Juno.com ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.