species are now hyperlinked to picturepages. But we need a LOT more
pics of
other species of the genus. WHO has them???????
I can offer photos of two species:
1) Arum hygrophilum - fairly low resolution but reasonably OK. I should
have much better one in a month or two, if it blooms again. Feel free
to grab the photos from:
http://www.kozminski.com/Araceae/Arum/hygrophilum.html
2) Allegedly Arum dioscoridis var. dioscoridis. These are 800x600 - if
you want a different size let me know, and I'll generate them from the
originals (or I can give you all 7MB of the originals if you prefer);
do not bother resizing mine since they were already resized once and
you'll get lower quality if you do.
I got this arum from a sale at UC Berkeley, labeled as A. dioscoridis
var. luschanii, which I believe is supposed to be synonymous to var.
dioscoridis. However, it looks very different from what you have put
here:
http://www.aroid.org/genera/arum/dioscoridis/index.html
In my plant, the spathe resembles Alan Galloway's dioscoridis var.
dioscoridis shown here:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~alan/plants/aroids/arums/dioscoridis/
but it has no trace of any light color in the spathe, and the
cross-section looks completely different - where yours and Alan's have
two wide rings of the presumably insect-trapping thingies sticking out
(one ring above male flowers, another between male and female flowers),
mine has only one narrow ring above the male flowers, and the thingies
are much shorter. Oh, and the flower had no smell of any sort. Either I
cut the thing too early (although I did give it at least a day after
opening, hoping for the stench to occur), or maybe what I have is not
what it was labeled as.
BTW, two gripes about your page about A.dioscoridis:
- please identify the variety pictured
- fix the page titles that show up after clicking the thumbnails; they
say the photos are of Arisaema ciliatum
KK
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