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From: "Alan Galloway" alan_galloway at ncsu.edu> on 2003.04.29 at 03:15:16(10132)
A few weeks back there was some discussion on the list about
the white flowering form of Dracunculus vulgaris (which I included
below). After 9 years of growing, what I had hoped would be this
magnificent aroid, from seed it finally showed its true colors. See:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~alan/plants/aroids/dracunculus/drac-pg2/
What is pictured isn't quite as spectacular as the photos that
Wilbert put on the IAS web site, but it's still worth the wait!
Alan
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [aroid-l] Dracunculus "white form"
> Steve,
> I'm glad that you found this info in the archives, as I had planned to
> search for this it. Like you, I also received some of these seed.
> If I'm not mistaken, these seed were dispersed by Mr. Nick
> Turland. Perhaps he could comment if he is still on the list.
> I did have good germination and still have 5 tubers growing in the
> garden. I'm hoping that 1 or 2 of them may bloom this spring. The
> petioles are much lighter in color than the normal form, although I
> don't know if this could be indicative of flower color.
> Alan
>
> >
> > I finally had a moment to go back through old disk files ... in 1994, a
> > then-member of Aroid-L was able to distribute some wild-collected D.
> > vulgaris seed from Crete (along with Arum purpureospathum). He sent
quite
> > a large amount, collected from a number of populations. Some populations
> > were, or had plants of, the color variants. The seed was a mix of what
was
> > available, since of course at seed time he didn't know for sure what
> > plants were of the unusual forms.
> >
> > I personally didn't get great germination from them, and none of the
> > surviving plants appear to be anything but the ordinary form - about the
> > same as the "heirloom" plants I already had. Has anyone else had better
> > luck with them?
> >
> > Below is a paragraph he posted at the time about them:
> >
> > "I know of a healthy population in S. central Crete in the S.-facing
mouth
> > of a large limestone gorge. Here the Dracunculus grows among small trees
> > and on stony, almost scree-like limestone slopes at about 500 m
altitude.
> > These are hot, Mediterranean conditions. Some plants have the normal
dark
> > purple spathe and spadix, whereas others have an entirely creamy white
> > spathe but the normal dark purple spadix. The odd few are intermediates
> > with mottled spathes and orangey spadices. I saw these in flower in
April
> > 1989 and later collected seeds in July 1994. Subsequently, these seeds
> > were distributed among various subscribers to Aroid-L (together with
Arum
> > purpureospathum, also from Crete), and news of their progress appears
from
> > time to time (any more news?). Unfortunately, I do not know of a
> > commercial source for the white form."
> >
> > Steve
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From: "Val Gillman" hortma at totheinter.net> on 2003.04.29 at 03:50:27(10133)
better than pure white, don't you think?
V. Gillman
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> What is pictured isn't quite as spectacular as the photos that
> Wilbert put on the IAS web site, but it's still worth the wait!
>
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From: "Marge Talt" mtalt at hort.net> on 2003.04.29 at 06:03:01(10134)
Pretty spectacular IMO and lovely variegated foliage!
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Alan Galloway
>
> A few weeks back there was some discussion on the list about
> the white flowering form of Dracunculus vulgaris (which I included
> below). After 9 years of growing, what I had hoped would be this
> magnificent aroid, from seed it finally showed its true colors.
See:
> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~alan/plants/aroids/dracunculus/drac-pg2/
>
> What is pictured isn't quite as spectacular as the photos that
> Wilbert put on the IAS web site, but it's still worth the wait!
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From: "Benoit Mouroux" bmouroux at hotmail.com> on 2003.04.29 at 07:12:51(10135)
hello alan,
really nice, i love it !
i hope you have some offsets in few years ;-)
Benoit MOUROUX
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From: Al Wootten awootten at nrao.edu> on 2003.04.29 at 13:58:15(10137)
Thanks for sharing the photos of this great plant. My own
Dracunculus vulgaris seems to have vanished; I hope to get down to
Plant Delights during one of the open houses and fetch a replacement...
Clear skies,
Al
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From: "C. J. Addington" cjaddington at earthlink.net> on 2003.05.01 at 03:37:50(10151)
on 4/28/03 20:15, Alan Galloway at alan_galloway@ncsu.edu wrote:
> A few weeks back there was some discussion on the list about
> the white flowering form of Dracunculus vulgaris (which I included
> below). After 9 years of growing, what I had hoped would be this
> magnificent aroid, from seed it finally showed its true colors.
Alan,
Those white Dracunculus are beautiful. You did a good job with them! Their
spadixes appear unusually thin and pointy for that species. Do you notice
that is consistent in the white-flowered form?
If you ever have seed or offsets available, I know I would love to give it
a try. My normal purple guys could use the contrasting color neighbors!
Thanks for posting the pictures!
CJ in California
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