Synchronicity/Multiplicity

[Roy Herold]

A few months ago I was bemoaning the fact that the A. ringens I had gotten
from Eric Walton in New Zealand was insisting on remaining on Southern
Hemisphere time. Well, the cycle has been broken. About a month ago it
started to put up another shoot, and in the past week or so another one
came up. The original leaf that appeared last August looks fine, although
is a little tired. Final count: three stems, one tuber.

A. candidissimum seems to exhibit the same tendency towards mutiple leaves
as Gus's A. franchetianum. I had seedlings that did the same thing last
summer. Now, I'm just waiting for them to come up again after a long, cool
spring here. Of the Chinese collections, only A. lobatum and A. elephas
have made their appearance. The two specimens of the latter are quite
different in coloration-- will be able to tell more once they unfurl
completely.

Re Madan Tamang: does this mean there will be a glut of A. intermedium on
the market, and they'll be really cheap?

--Roy Herold
N. Reading, MA