Re: New photo

From: Scott Hyndman <scothynd at magicnet.net> on 1998.03.10 at 21:14:40(1945) Dick, I have seen thousands of mutations during my twenty year career in plant tissue culture, but the Amorphophallus in this image is by far the most spectacular mutation I have ever seen, or heard of, if it is truly a mutated plant out of tissue culture. I think it is much more likely an escaped or introduced Am. pendulus. As to the exact identification of the specimen, I will defer to Wilbert's judgment. I know that Ron Gagliardo and the other staff at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens do seem to make miracles happen with their very competent horticulture and tissue culture, but I seriously doubt that the origin of the plant to be from a mutated culture. Regardless, the image is of a fine looking aroid, and I will be interested in getting a plant after they become available from Ron's competent cloning efforts. Regards, Scott +More -- Mr. Scott E. Hyndman Winter Park, Florida USA E-mail: scothynd@magicnet.net Richard Mansell wrote: > Greetings: I received this message from Ron Gagliardo at the Atlanta > Botanical Garden. The address for the photo is: > > http://www.cas.usf.edu/~mansell/images/ABG1.jpg > > This plant appeared in a batch of Amorphophallus planted out from our > lab in Oct. 97. At that time, we had 5 species in culture, A. > curvistilus, gigas, knojac, titanum and variabilis. Some of these other > species are seen in the background. This particular one is most likely > a mutant of A. konjac, but we can't be 100 % sure because when it came > up in the greenhouse, it was among the tc plants, but without a label. > It does look like A. pendulus in the Aroideana photo, but we have never > had A. pendulus at ABG and of course, never had it in tissue culture. > So, that's the story. Of course, we plan to put this clone back in > tissue culture and hope it comes true. > > He thought you might be interested in seeing the plant. > > Dick > -- > Richard L. Mansell Phone: H(813) 961-7072 > Biology Department, LIF 136 W(813) 974-1588 > University of South Florida Fax: (813) 974-1614 > Tampa, FL 33620 > > Home: 13508 Little Lake Place, Tampa, FL 33613-4134 > > E-mail- mansell@chuma.cas.usf.edu > WWW - http://www.cas.usf.edu/~mansell/mansell.html

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