RE: [Aroid-l] Helicodiceros fruit

From: "Julius Boos" <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2007.05.24 at 23:00:54(15710) Reply-To : Discussion of aroids Sent : Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:08 AM To : Discussion of aroids Subject : [Aroid-l] Helicodiceros fruit Dear CJ, Thanks for sharing your good fortune and photos with all of us on aroid-L. Nice job of growing this sometimes difficult species, and having the good fortune that the pollinators (probably blow-flies) are around your parts! I used to have this plant here in S. Florida, it did survive, but barely. I came out of dormancy and grew leaves in Winter/Spring here in the hot South, and went dormant around May-June when it became too hot. It never bloomed for me. I hope that others who live in an appropiate zone/area write to you and that you can trade off some of the seeds, it is a plant worthy of being kept in cultivation! The Best, Julius +More Hello Aroiders! Due to a hectic academic life lately, I have mostly been a silent lurker on this board - reading a lot but adding little. But I have had a cool event happen in my yard that I thought I would share . . . The last few years I have been planting Helicodiceros offsets in various parts of my California garden, and they have slowly started blooming in early May.This year I had one of my blooms get pollinated naturally - no scalpel, no paintbrush, no frozen pollen - and set a nice cluster of fruits all on its own. I have never seen a Helicodiceros fruit cluster before, and figured that few people have either, so here it is! If you click on this Flickr photo link, you can see the fruit cluster: http://www.flickr.com/photos/california_aroids/sets/72157600242205488/ I am working on getting more of my photos online as well - I had some nice Arum, Dracunculus and Biarum blooms this spring. Have a great week All! Cheers, C.J. Addington<< _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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