A funny coincidence... A couple of years ago Andrew Broome from New Zealand sent me some photos of an arisaema he was growing. (You may know of Andrew from the Oxalis group.) He said he got seed of this plant from the Arisaema Enthusiast Group in 1997, and that I (!) was the donor. However the ID was only as "Arisaema sp. 102004" from my trip to Yunnan in 1996. I immediately went to my copy of Guy Gusman's arisaema book and ID'd Andrew's plant as Arisema yunnanense v. aridum. I found my old collection notes, and saw that it came from "West of Tiger Leaping Gorge, Grassy hillside, big boulders, 6400'". There were 510 seeds from this single collection, most of which went to the AEG and NARGS. My own attempt to grow them failed miserably. Sigh. I can't say that the collection locale was especially dry, however. There were huge round man-size boulders scattered over the entire hillside, but the intervening vegetation was rather lush grass. We also found Arisaema franchetianum growing in the same area, both on the hillside and nearby in Tiger Leaping Gorge Village. Andrew gave me permission to post his photos on the wiki, but I'm too busy right now to learn the new wiki protocol. I can send them to someone more skilled for posting, however (Nhu, MSI, anyone?) --Roy NW of Boston Solid snow cover despite rain and 50F this week