Off topic--'cultivating' Rafflesia

From: "Julius Boos" <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2007.01.14 at 22:46:24(15089) Reply-To : Discussion of aroids Sent : Friday, January 12, 2007 7:57 PM To : aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Subject : [Aroid-l] Rafflesia I know that my friend Pia who posted this is knowledgable as to the following, but for those who are not, and who just might even THINK about his suggestion of trying to establish Rafflesia in Horticulture, the following facts might disuade them and save them lots of time and effort. To realisticly grow Raflesia, on would have to first obtain the seeds and cultivate a specific giant jungle vine to maturity, as the only place that Rafflesia is know to exist is as a parasite WITHIN the tissues of one of these GIANT jungle vines. Rafflesia (which does not have leaves, roots or branches) grows there for an undeterminate length of time, and presumably when mature, produces a flower bud which then emerges from the vine, and if it attains maturity and opens, and if pollination is sucessful (by carrion flies), and seed is produced, these are then distributed by birds, and IF one adhers to the correct vine, a new parasitic Raffelesia grows within the mature vines tissues. Who is off to Asia to collect seeds?? :--) Julius +More WPB, FLORIDA not an aroid, but maybe some you might want to grow it???? :-) http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=rafflesia&btnG=Search+News ========= tsuh yang ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p¾STDEAL _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: "Michael Pascall" <mickpascall at hotmail.com> on 2007.01.15 at 22:15:24(15090) Troy Davies had a fantastic series of pictures on his web site when he was selling Amorpho's . Site not around now , but I could not resist saving the pics , if I can get +More permission will put them up somewhere . Also seen a postcard brought back from the Aroid Conference in Sarawak of several different species of Rafflesia . I wonder if it would grow in the lianes from our Mucuna bennetii or 'Flame of the Forest' ?? Now that would be a sight. Michael Pascall, _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Meet Sexy Singles Today @ Lavalife - Click here http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale%3Den%5FAU%26a%3D23769&_tu4951090&_r=endtext_lavalife_dec_meet&_m=EXT _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: piaba <piabinha at yahoo.com> on 2007.01.16 at 18:02:09(15096) jubo, not to mention one must have no nose in order to appreciate the blooms... :-) ========= +More tsuh yang ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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