Re: [Aroid-l] Helicodiceros fruit

From: "C. J. Addington" <cjaddington at comcast.net> on 2007.05.26 at 01:04:06(15718) Thanks, Julius! I always thought this was a tricky species too, until I just started chunking the babies in my garden and ignoring them. Then they took off and now I have some really big plants in odd corners of the garden. I may seriously regret planting so many if they all start blooming at once! I have grown Dracunculus and various Arums here for years, and they open-pollinate quite freely, so we seem to have a good cohort of carrion insects. I see many big hairy beetles and metallic flies all over my freshly opened Dracunculus blooms. I am going to collect the seeds once the fruits ripen, and would be happy to share them with anyone who would like to give them a shot. They do deserve good homes! Have a great Memorial Day weekend! Cheers, C.J. Addington +More Central California Zone 9a On 05/24/2007 16:00, "Julius Boos" wrote: > > >> From : C. J. Addington > 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 > >>> 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 _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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