recent Amorphophallus blooms

From: "C. J. Addington" <cjaddington at comcast.net> on 2007.06.19 at 02:10:55(15799) Hello aroiders! I hope everyone had a great Father's Day weekend and a good new week. I know many of the more common Amorphophallus blooms are old hat for many people here, but I am still quite entranced when a plant I have been caring for chooses to pop up a bloom ( or two! ). This month I have had a very nice, and very large, A. bulbifer bloom in the greenhouse. It was truly pretty ( for a corpse flower! ) and the odor was brief and short lived. Right now I have some A. verticillatus in bloom - 4 blooms all at once, and two emerging from the same single large corm. I have not seen that before, and it's very neat to see. All four blooms are from the same genetic clone, so I do not know if they are able to pollinate one another well, but I'll keep an eye on it and see. I was especially impressed by just how phototaxic the A. verticillatus blooms are - they leaned dramatically toward the brightest corner of the greenhouse. If anyone would like to see pictures of my bloom, I have uploaded them to my Flickr page, which can be reached by clicking this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/california_aroids/sets/72157600256427252/ Have a great week everyone! Cheers, C.J. Addington +More Central Valley of California _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: Susan B <honeybunny442 at yahoo.com> on 2007.06.21 at 16:12:35(15804) Great photos, CJ. Bulbifer is one of my favorites, too.There is a group photo of konjacs with an odd looking plant to the right of it- perhaps a vine? What is that?thanks!Susan The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing._______________________________________________ +More Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: "C. J. Addington" <cjaddington at comcast.net> on 2007.06.22 at 18:02:48(15817) Title: Re: [Aroid-l] recent Amorphophallus blooms Hi Susan! Actually that vine is just a Morning Glory gone to seed – nothing too exotic there! At my school, A. bulbifer is one of the faculty’s favorite corpse flowers – they tend to like its standard “prettiness” and lack of vile odor. I like it too, but I do appreciate the stinky ones! Cheers, C.J. +More On 06/21/2007 09:12, "Susan B" wrote: Great photos, CJ. Bulbifer is one of my favorites, too. There is a group photo of konjacs with an odd looking plant to the right of it- perhaps a vine? What is that? thanks! Susan The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. _______________________________________________ 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: "Harry Witmore" <harrywitmore at witmore.net> on 2007.06.22 at 20:50:40(15819) Title: Re: [Aroid-l] recent Amorphophallus blooms Every A bulbifer I have smells like Propane Gas when it first opens. We have often walked out of the house this time of year and thought we had a gas leak only to find a flower open. Harry +More Witmore Cloud Jungle Epiphyteswww.cloudjungle.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of C. J. AddingtonSent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:03 PMTo: Discussion of aroidsSubject: Re: [Aroid-l] recent Amorphophallus blooms Hi Susan! Actually that vine is just a Morning Glory gone to seed – nothing too exotic there! At my school, A. bulbifer is one of the faculty’s favorite corpse flowers – they tend to like its standard “prettiness” and lack of vile odor. I like it too, but I do appreciate the stinky ones!Cheers,C.J.On 06/21/2007 09:12, "Susan B" wrote: Great photos, CJ. Bulbifer is one of my favorites, too.There is a group photo of konjacs with an odd looking plant to the right of it- perhaps a vine? What is that?thanks!Susan The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. _______________________________________________Aroid-l mailing listAroid-l@gizmoworks.comhttp://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.4/860 - Release Date: 6/21/2007 5:53 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.4/860 - Release Date: 6/21/2007 5:53 PM _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: "Julius Boos" <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2007.06.22 at 22:38:23(15823) Reply-To : Discussion of aroids Sent : Friday, June 22, 2007 6:02 PM To : Discussion of aroids Subject : Re: [Aroid-l] recent Amorphophallus blooms Dear C. J. and Amrphofriends, This makes me bring up a point we discussed some years ago (5? 6? ??), I had said that I THOUGHT there was both a 'good smelling' and a 'bad smelling' A. bulbifer! C. J. seems to be saying that his A. bulbifer does NOT smell bad ("lack of vile odor"), while Harry Witmore says all his 'smell of propane gas'! When I brought up my original observation, it was based on a plant of what I was TOLD was the 'good smelling' A. bulbifer at Mounts Bot. Garden here in WPB, Florida (from memory it looked like C. J.`s photo of his bloom)---it too was in bloom, and had what I remember as a pleasant smell, certainly NOT rotten meat or poop! Everyone back then in the discussion said 'no way', ALL A. bulbifer smell TERRIBLE! Maybe C. J. could give us some clarification on what his bloom smells like, and the experts could then once more chime in???? The Best, Julius +More Hi Susan! Actually that vine is just a Morning Glory gone to seed ? nothing too exotic there! At my school, A. bulbifer is one of the faculty?s favorite corpse flowers ? they tend to like its standard ?prettiness? and lack of vile odor. I like it too, but I do appreciate the stinky ones! Cheers, C.J.<< _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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