Re: Araceae

From: "Dr. Tom Croat" tcroat at LEHMANN.MOBOT.ORG> on 2000.05.22 at 22:21:20(4613) Chris: I forgot to answer your question about relevent literature on thermogenesis. My student Jane Whitehill has written an excellent review paper on this subject which will be published in our special aroid edition of the Monographs in Systematic Botany of the Missouri Botanical Garden, hopefully sometime this year. Perhaps in the meantime she could suggest to you some of the better articles on the subject. Tom +More On 22 May 00, at 11:47, Chris Tyrell wrote: Date sent: Mon, 22 May 2000 11:47:00 -0800 Subject: Araceae To: Copies to: Dwight Koss Hello Mr. Croat, I got your name from the staff of the LA County Arboretum to whom I had posed a question. I am not a knowledgeable plant person, I am a lay admirer of the floral world, that's all. I love to go to gardens. While in LA, behind a friend's hotel, I saw a huge split-leaf philadendron (monstrosa?) which had numerous "pods" with points at the top of a growing shoot. Our of one protruded a long, white, smooth and fleshy thing - a huge vcersion of that thing that sticks out of antheriums (?). Happily, I was motivated to touch it, and to my amazement it was HOT!!! The staff at the arboretum told me I might be able to find out from you how that plant produces the heat and why. Is there something a lay person could read about heat production in arcacaea? Chris Tyrell

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