Arisaema giganteum

[Greg Ruckert]

OK boys and girls, settle down.  Rather that replying to all the mails
individually I will say my piece here and now.

Firstly, photographs of every aspect of this plant were published in a back
issue of The Areae Journal - last year.

Secondly, I do not have spare material to swap.  This is not me being
possessive it is me being environmentally friendly.  I take a maximum of 5
tubers of any collection so that they will still be there for the future
(subject to the locals).  Those 5 tubers in quarantine are the only ones
apart from two that went back to Kunming and the ones still in the wild.
9 subscribers to last year's expedition received seed (I hope you are
working off the numbers and not the names) of this species, as did the full
subscribers the year before.  As always my aim is to get seed once the
tubers have acclimatised at home.  Rob has been instructed to cut the
flowers off once we have pics of them to help them through quarantine.

Thanks for all your interest
Greg Ruckert
Australian Areae Collection
http://www.ezi-learn.com.au/areae/default.html