From: ju-bo at msn.com (ju-bo at msn.com) on 2008.08.12 at 09:06:04(18368)
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> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:17:26 -0400
> From: pugturd at alltel.net
> To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com
> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Odd behavior on Colocasia.
Dear Brian,
I THINK this is a cultivar of Colocasia esculenta, probably one of the vars. introduced by Walter Pagels from Asia, not a hybrid.
It looks to me that this interesting little leaf emerging from high on a petiole of a previous/older leaf might be just an artifact of an extra-long sheath on the older leaf, a sort of occasionel ''deformity'' in this cultivar, if you will.
Try doing a dissection with a razor blade (you will have to ''sacrifice'' the leaf with the smaller leaf emerging). Cut the old larger leaf off as low to the ground/roots/corm as possible.
Try looking carefully for the ''seam'' of the leaf sheath along the old leaf, you would start at where the new small leaf has emerged and work/search downward. Then try cutting cross-sections of the larger leafs petiole, working downward from where the new leaf emerged, determining if a smaller petiole of the smaller leaf does in fact occur INSIDE the closed sheath of the older, larger petiole.
Let us know what you discover!
Good Growing,
Julius
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