amorphophallus

amorphophallus
Rick Buell via pbs (Thu, 22 Mar 2018 05:57:44 PDT)

Little did we suspect the extreme toxicity of ranunculus!

I'm just a little South of you in New London CT, where we seem to have whistled past the worst of the storm. Purple crocus are under an inch of soggy snow. We'll see what remains....

Rick Buell
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On Thu, 3/22/18, Jane Sargent <jane@deskhenge.com> wrote:

Subject: [pbs] amorphophallus
To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2018, 8:49 AM

I was reading something about arctic plants
that said that the shiny
petals of Ranunculus could focus
light/heat on the developing seed in
the middle. The petals certainly are
reflective. As children, we would
hold bouquets of buttercups under each
other's chins to see the yellow
reflection and say "do you like
butter?"

Thank you for the thermogenesis
references. There's not a lot that
plants can't do. I just hadn't known
that they could do that, too.

Today in Massachusetts we have a few
inches of new snow, the hideous
stuff is still coming down, so no
crocuses yet.

Jane Sargent

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