Hi, Steve! I hope to go back tomorrow and get some photos, before the spathes shrivel. It really is a splendid colony, but it's in a trashy wet woodland in town. The plants don't mind, but I find it depressing to traipse past bottles and cans and through rivulets of suspicious-looking runoff. On the other hand, there's a big patch of feral crocus along the path (tommy types, I guess, but nice large flowers), and I have ambitions to relocate some to home. I keep telling myself that waiting and collecting seed is the sensible thing to do - and I will try to do that too - but instant gratification is so appealing.... I'm willing to try to go back later in the season to collect symplocarpus seed, if there's any interest in it. I know it needs to be kept quite damp, so I'll pack it in something moist and send it along to Dell for distribution. Ellen On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Steve Marak <samarak@gizmoworks.com> wrote: > Ellen, > > One of my favorite North American aroids, though they don't grow this > far south and west (NW Arkansas). I'd love to see any pictures you get > of the natural variation in the plants. > > I've tried growing Lysichiton, the western skunk cabbage. Fine in the > winter, but just wouldn't take our summers. (My source was a friend in > the Pacific NW, so perhaps plants from the southern end of the range > would have a better chance here.) Symplocarpus has such a wide range it > might well be more adaptable, but apparently no one but me wants to grow > it. > > Steve > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- Ellen Hornig 212 Grafton St Shrewsbury MA 01545 508-925-5147