[Aroid-l] recent Amorphophallus blooms

From: "C. J. Addington" <cjaddington at comcast.net> on 2007.06.19 at 02:10:55(15799) Hello aroiders! I hope everyone had a great Father's Day weekend and a good new week. I know many of the more common Amorphophallus blooms are old hat for many people here, but I am still quite entranced when a plant I have been caring for chooses to pop up a bloom ( or two! ). This month I have had a very nice, and very large, A. bulbifer bloom in the greenhouse. It was truly pretty ( for a corpse flower! ) and the odor was brief and short lived. Right now I have some A. verticillatus in bloom - 4 blooms all at once, and two emerging from the same single large corm. I have not seen that before, and it's very neat to see. All four blooms are from the same genetic clone, so I do not know if they are able to pollinate one another well, but I'll keep an eye on it and see. I was especially impressed by just how phototaxic the A. verticillatus blooms are - they leaned dramatically toward the brightest corner of the greenhouse. If anyone would like to see pictures of my bloom, I have uploaded them to my Flickr page, which can be reached by clicking this link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/california_aroids/sets/72157600256427252/ Have a great week everyone! Cheers, C.J. Addington +More Central Valley of California _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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