[aroid-l] Amorphophallus amputation?

From: ken at spatulacity.com on 2004.06.16 at 14:53:57(11627) I have a question about untimely amputation of an Amorphophallus leaf. Let's say a perfectly innocent Amorph has been happily growing and minding its own business. It's had time to form a new tuber of some size but isn't done its growing season - and then a malicious creature comes and chomps off the leaf and exhumes the tuber (but leaves it alone) and the poor tuber sits on the ground all exposed for a few weeks. (The malicious creature *could* have been a squirrel whose own growing season was cut short...) Is that tuber going to want to be replanted to grow a new leaf or will it want to stay dormant until the next growing season? -Ken Mosher

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