More Indian arisaemas; group order from China

[Ellen Hornig]

As the arisaemas I ordered from Red's Rhodies this year bloom, the
purported A. griffithii seem to be A. intermedium, and the purported A.
intermedium seem to be A. costatum.   The purported A. concinnum is just
unfolding; first impressions are that it might conceivably be A.
concinnum (i.e. it's going to have a radiate leaf).   A. nepenthoides
might have been just that, but the two that limped up were miserable
things with partial, distorted leaflets and no flowers, and one has since
died (or died down).

In answer to your indirect query, Jim, no, I don't want to coordinate a
China order; not to prejudge the whole thing, but I'm tired of pouring
money down ratholes.  I'm putting up two new houses this year, including
one with (minimal) bottom heat for all these arums, arisaemas and
cyclamens that I feel compelled to grow; I don't *have* money to pour,
even if I want to, and I already have a large foreign order coming in from
a somewhat, but not completely, safer source. Besides which, I have about
50 million little Chinese arisaemas already, courtesy of those nice folks
who brought back seed last fall.....

Ellen