Arisaema rust

[Jaime Rodriguez]

Thank you all for the information.  Since my collection is still quite
small,  I have taken the sick plant,  removed and destroyed the leaf,
discarded the old soil,  washed the tuber and put it in fresh potting mix.
Much to my surprise,  there were two bb sized tubers in addition to the
main tuber,  which had already grown almost as large as when I planted it.
It appears that the old tuber is nearly consumed by producing the leaf.
There was a sizable empty spot inside the skin of the old tuber.

I only have five A. triphyllum,  four A. sikkokianum and one A. dracontium.
I am  sure that none of the others have been infected.  I had also gotten
three small tubers for a. tortuosum,  but I think they were damaged in the
mail.  One of them had clearly been crushed.  Evidently the other two had
also been bruised beyond recovery,  because all three rotted while dormant.
Sigh.



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