Hi all, Bonaventure reminds me -- I put some pollen of Arisaema serratum on A. ringens, and the fruit head is still green and firm. Maybe I'll get some [ringens X serratum] seedlings out of this! I have not tried plants or seeds of wilsonii or griffithii, but I have seedlings sprouting of jaquemontii, ciliatum liubaense, and flavum. I tried elephas from seed once and apparently got nothing. I have seedlings from A. consanguineum already planted out in the woodland garden. What they say is mostly true -- Arisaema are very easy from seed, if the seed germinates at all. Regards, Jim Shields At 03:25 PM 8/19/2003 -0400, you wrote: >Yes, mine was Arisaema wilsonii. Happy to say its pollen has set a few >berries on reproductively isolated Arisaema triphyllum female >inflorescences. >Hopefully the offspring will be hardier than the high-altitude cooler >growing and dry summer loving wilsonii/elephas/handelii Asian complex of >species. The wilsonii tuber soon shriveled but left me 6 small grape-sized >offsets around the crown of the old tuber. Griffithii quickly went dormant >after blooming also but I managed to save its tuber and placed its pollen >on the very hardy and easy growing amurense and ringens! A.sikokianum >pulled through a rough winter here in New Jersey by being planted in raised >beds or higher spots in the garden but I did lose thunbergii. > >Bonaventure ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA Member of INTERNATIONAL CLIVIA CO-OP