[Aroid-l] Colocasia gigantea-unusual inflorcense arrangement

From: Brian Williams <pugturd at alltel.net> on 2008.10.16 at 13:30:34(18644) This is common for Gigantea the Thailand strain. The common form I had grown for years with out ever seeing a hint of a flower. That was until several years ago when I made it a goal to get it to flower. I put the plant on a timed watering system and hit it with a lot of fertilizers in the hopes of it producing a inflorescence. At the end of summer it did flower and the flowers were much the same as on the Thailand strain but they were not as developed. One of the oddest things was the fact that in this situation the plant which commonly suckered for me started producing runners which I have never seen on a gigantea before. This form seems much different than the other clone having odd growths under the leaves never flowering and constantly suckering. They tend to act much like to separate species but the flower were unmistakable for this group. +More _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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