Arisaema TOW
J.E. Shields (Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:49:48 PDT)
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
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