Re: Amorphophallus 2nd flowering

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2000.11.30 at 16:31:36(5734) And here am I thinking I know a thing or two about them phalloids....... My explanation is that your tuber is SO big, it may have developed a second, subdominant apical (do you need more of those words.....?) bud, that obviously was also induced to flower but emerged later than the dominant one. How's THAT for a fairy tale? Nonetheless I think there may be a bit of truth in it. One question though: does the second inflorescencence emerge from the base of the leaf (in it's axil), or is it slightly distant from that base? In the first case, you really have a case of overactivity in the flowering department, in the second case, my explanation goes! Happy growin' Wilbert Lord P. +More ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Sent: donderdag 30 november 2000 4:46 Subject: Amorphophallus 2nd flowering > I have a large tuber of Amorphophallus prainii and it flowered wonderfully > in October [southern hemisphere] filling the house with the stench of > propane gas as it wafted its perfume in from where it grows in front of the > verandah. A month later, now it has put up it's leaf shoot with leaf > unfurling, however alongside is another flower from the same tuber. Is this > usual, for some reason I had the impression to expect only one flower per > tuber for each season. > > Marilyn van den Bergh. > > > >

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