konjac flowers and roots

From: "Michael Marcotrigiano" <mmarcotr at email.smith.edu> on 2004.02.23 at 16:43:49(11192) Question for you all: I know that Amorphphalus konjac flowers without soil simply sitting on a bench. +More But... if you successfully pollinate it does it form fruit and viable seed without a root system? just curious since I think I successfully made some "intercultivar" crosses. _______________________________ Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences Smith College Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063 email: mmarcotr@smith.edu voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744 www.smith.edu/garden www.science.smith.edu/~mmarcotr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding." Marc Chagall

From: Nathan Lange <nelange at concentric.net> on 2004.02.23 at 21:27:09(11193) Michael, Yes, they will indeed form fruit and viable seed without roots. The bulbs whose flowers you pollinated will not produce leaves this summer and will significantly shrivel as their energy reserves are used to produce fruit. Nathan Lange +More At 11:43 AM 2/23/2004 -0500, you wrote: Question for you all: I know that Amorphphalus konjac flowers without soil simply sitting on a bench. But... if you successfully pollinate it does it form fruit and viable seed without a root system? just curious since I think I successfully made some "intercultivar" crosses. _______________________________ Michael Marcotrigiano, Ph.D Director of the Botanic Garden and Professor of Biological Sciences Smith College Lyman Conservatory, 15 College Lane Northampton, MA 01063 email: mmarcotr@smith.edu voice: 413-585-2741; fax: 413-585-2744 www.smith.edu/garden www.science.smith.edu/~mmarcotr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding." Marc Chagall

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