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Re: [aroid-l] A. titanum seed

From: piaba <piabinha at yahoo.com> on 2004.06.04 at 14:16:58(11569)
i've had anthurium seed shipped to me in moist paper
towel in a plastic bag, and the seeds sprouted in the
envelope.
+More
tsuh yang
--- Alan Galloway wrote:
> Dan,
> You're correct that it would be better if
> Amorphophallus seed
> could be shipped with the berry pulp left on. The
> pulp helps
> to keep the seed moist, as Amorphophallus seed loose
> viability
> rather quickly if allowed to dry out.
>
> Unfortunately, packets of seed coming into the U.S.
> are
> suseptable to being inspected by customs. Should
> the customs
> inspectors find berry pulp in a shipment, they'll
> simply
> destroy the seed. I've heard from a fellow
> collector here
> in the US, that their shipment from Malesiana was
> confiscated
> because of the pulp left on the berries.
>
> The only alternative is to clean the pulp off the
> seed and put
> them in some kind of moist media before shipping.
>
> I've grownd Am. titanum from seed (shipped to me
> without
> the pulp) and the germination has been almost 100%.
>
=====
tsuh yang

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