the $64,000 amorphophallus question .....

From: sparky4114 at mac.com (Thom Powell) on 2008.04.09 at 12:45:46(17340) A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0350.JPG Type: image/jpeg +More Size: 336098 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080409/e4389c67/attachment-0001.jpeg -------------- next part -------------- who is this? It was sold to me as a A. paeoniifolius from a Thailand ebay vendor..... the corm is about 4" wide and the flower is about 5" high..... I am thinking it might be A. koratensis, but my amorpho knowledge is limited. It is also starting to brown a little at the bottom of the flower where it would start opening.

From: ronmchatton at aol.com (ronmchatton at aol.com) on 2008.04.09 at 22:22:04(17350) Probably koratensis based on the short spathe limb but it's really hard to tell if it doesn't open up well.? This group doesn't flower very well left out of the ground as the bud develops.? Some of the species like konjac, longituberosus and a bunch of other things will flower just as well sitting in a box as being planted but it's been my experience that koratensis and paeoniifollis will brown out.? There don't appear to be any offsets on this corm and that's also consistent with koratensis.? It does offset but produces fewer than the clones of paeoniifolius I have and not often on a small corm. Ron McHatton +More Zone 9 Central Florida?? -----Original Message----- From: Thom Powell To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com Sent: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 8:45 am Subject: [Aroid-l] the $64,000 amorphophallus question ..... who is this? It was sold to me as a A. paeoniifolius from a Thailand ebay vendor..... the corm is about 4" wide and the flower is about 5" high..... I am thinking it might be A. koratensis, but my amorpho knowledge is limited. It is also starting to brown a little at the bottom of the flower where it would start opening. _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080409/517e895b/attachment-0001.htm

From: gschnu at gmail.com (Georg Gschnitzer) on 2008.04.10 at 12:23:31(17364) Hello Thom, looking at the bulb, it might be Am. koratensis. Concerning the flower, I cannot help you. best regards! Georg +More 2008/4/9, Thom Powell : > > > who is this? It was sold to me as a A. paeoniifolius from a Thailand ebay > vendor..... the corm is about 4" wide and the flower is about 5" high..... I > am thinking it might be A. koratensis, but my amorpho knowledge is limited. > It is also starting to brown a little at the bottom of the flower where it > would start opening. > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080410/cb9261cf/attachment.htm

From: sparky4114 at mac.com (Thom Powell) on 2008.04.12 at 00:53:49(17381) Hi Ron, Thanks for the info... i cut the flower off (since it was only browning out) and opened it up ? so if it is a koratensis, at what point do you put it in soil and at what level? it seems to me that since the spathe limb is so short on this species, you would plant it rather shallow....but shouldn't it be planted deeper when the leaf starts to form, so the root system can support the leaf? +More On Apr 9, 2008, at 6:22 PM, ronmchatton at aol.com wrote: > Probably koratensis based on the short spathe limb but it's really > hard to tell if it doesn't open up well. This group doesn't flower > very well left out of the ground as the bud develops. Some of the > species like konjac, longituberosus and a bunch of other things > will flower just as well sitting in a box as being planted but it's > been my experience that koratensis and paeoniifollis will brown > out. There don't appear to be any offsets on this corm and that's > also consistent with koratensis. It does offset but produces fewer > than the clones of paeoniifolius I have and not often on a small corm. > > Ron McHatton > Zone 9 > Central Florida > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Thom Powell > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > Sent: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 8:45 am > Subject: [Aroid-l] the $64,000 amorphophallus question ..... > > > who is this? It was sold to me as a A. paeoniifolius from a > Thailand ebay vendor..... the corm is about 4" wide and the flower > is about 5" high..... I am thinking it might be A. koratensis, but > my amorpho knowledge is limited. It is also starting to brown a > little at the bottom of the flower where it would start opening. > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > Get the MapQuest Toolbar, Maps, Traffic, Directions & More! > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080411/e90d2b29/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_0352.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 356932 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20080411/e90d2b29/attachment-0001.jpeg

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