bockii, sazensoo and what they are.....

[Wilbert Hetterscheid]

Yup, Clarence, exactly what I have! Must say that with a perfect spathe, it
is a beautiful plant.

Cheers,
Wilbert

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Van: C. R. Waldron <cwaldron at FROGNET.NET>
Aan: ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Datum: woensdag 10 maart 1999 0:38
Onderwerp: Re: bockii, sazensoo and what they are.....


I also received an "Ar. sikoikianum" from Chen Yi (not through Tony) which
is now in bloom.  Unfortunately the infloresence is deformed but the spathe
is purple striped with greenish-white and the appendix is greenish-white and
not swollen but rather flattened.  The leaf is decidedly serrate and the
leaf margin is red.  Does this agree with your Ar. bockii, Wilbert?

Clarence
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From:   Wilbert Hetterscheid[SMTP:hetter at WORLDONLINE.NL]
Sent:   Tuesday, March 09, 1999 3:46 PM
To:     ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL
Subject:        bockii, sazensoo and what they are.....

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Dear peoples,

I have received a few Arisaemas from Tony Avent a while ago, apparently all
from China. One has a spathe quite similar to that of Ar. sikokianum,
although hooded and partly pendulous. Of course it isn't Ar. sikokianum (no
swollen appendix top). It was given as sikokianum though. Using the
provisional key of the Flora of China by Li Heng (unpublished) I arrive at
Ar. bockii. This species may indeed be purple, although also green (as it
happens, I do have a green one flowering right now too, which was given to
me as Ar. du-bois-reymondii........). Murata's provisional list of Chinese
species (unpublished too), lists Ar. bockii and has in its synonymy "A.
sazensoo auct. in China", meaning "what authors have called Ar. sazensoo in
China". This again underlines the possibility of purple spathes in bockii,
as sazensoo is purple.

Both Murata and Li Heng do not list Ar. sazensoo for the flora of China.
Contrary to this, Guy Gusman in his "Japanese Arisaemas" (Bull. Alp. Gard.
Soc. 65 - 1997) claims that Ar. sazensoo does occur in China ("continental
Eastern China"). Following Murata, may we assume that Guy actually means
purple forms of Ar. bockii (as in my plant) and mistook them for Ar.
sazensoo? Guy, what's your latest opinion, hearing this? Or did you already
know this?

Sazensically yours
Wilbock