Re: Lesser amorphophalli, corms vs. tubers, etc.

From: Michael Marcotrigiano <marcotrigiano at pssci.umass.edu> on 1998.07.09 at 21:10:05(2447) I suggest that everyone with seedlings they find interesting and will propagate vegetatively to maintain character GIVE them a cultivar name and register the name so the future does not bring a mess when it comes to commercial offerings of these new types. Just a suggestion. +More At 08:37 AM 7/9/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Jul 8, 10:59am, Steve Marak wrote: >> Subject: Lesser amorphophalli, corms vs. tubers, etc. >> Re Amorph. konjac ... Dewey, you mentioned Fanny Phillips in one of your >> notes. Does she still grow the "giant" and "dwarf" forms of konjac that >> she had, and have these proven consistent in their growth and flowering? >> I've always been curious as to whether these were genetic or >> environmental, since aroids seem willing to flower small when happy. > >Steve, >Last year I had one of my konjacs to set seed and this year I have about >150 seedlings and at this stage there is quite a bit of diversity in this >batch of seedlings. There appears to be some dwarfs, some giants, some >pink-petioled, some red-petioled, and even a couple with twisted leaves. >I would definitely agree that these variances are due to genetics. > >It appears that I have been successful in getting one of my paeoniifolius >to set seed this year -- I should be able to collect a few hundred seed >later this year. It will interesting to see if this batch of paeoniifolius >seed will give any variant forms. > >> >> Dewey, is your marvelous parvulus the same one I am growing, i.e. the one >> that is something else very similar, or a true parvulus? On returning >> home, I noticed that my plant, apparently in envy of yours, has now >> started several more petioles. The effect of about 5 petioles with that >> remarkable coloration is very beautiful. > > >"Marvelous parvulus" or whatever name this plant will end up having is >one of the prettier Amophophallus. I shared a piece of this with Dewey >sometime ago. I received my original tuber from another list member >simply labeled as "Red Leaf". At one time there was a photo of this >plant on the IAS ID site and it was temporarily identified as A. parvulus, >but I think that plant was back into the "not sure" category. >I highly suspect that this is the same plant that you are growing. > >> >> What can you Amorph. experts tell me about "Leo Song #1" and "Leo Song >> #2"? I was given these during my travels, and know nothing about them >> except that LS #2 may be a white-stemmed konjac. Will someone enlighten >> me, please? > > >Some years ago I received some of these "Leo Song" tubers and I have been >sharing them each year, so you may have the same ones that I have. If I >am not mistaken, Wilbert did say that LS #2 was a white-stemmed konjac >from Kinabalu. > >Alan > >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >Alan Galloway alan_galloway@ncsu.edu >Computing Services, Information Technology >Campus Box 7109 >North Carolina State University (phone) 919-515-5483 >Raleigh, NC 27695-7109 (fax) 919-515-3787 > > ************************************************ Michael Marcotrigiano (email: marcotrigiano@pssci.umass.edu) Professor Rm 211 French Hall Dept. of Plant and Soil Sciences Univ of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-4210 USA ------------------------------------------------ phone: 413-545-5227 fax: 413-545-3075

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