seed dispersal

[Shawne Penwell]

Please remember to remind people that when they are cleaning the arisaema
seeds (removing the red fleshy part) to wear gloves as they will burn your
hands terribly!! I learned the hard way!!!

MJ Hatfield wrote:

> Do you agree that this is how Arisaema triphyllum seeds are dispersed in
> the wild? (This was posted on another list.)
>
>     "Well, now! Jack in the pulpit (or the closely related green dragon)
> is another matter. I guess I should have questioned that red pericarp.
>
>     Anyway, though they are not ant-dispersed, my comments about deer
> impact and increasing Trillium in your woods apply pretty well to
> Arisaema, too. Natural dispersal is by being eaten by birds or mammals,
> the seeds coming out unharmed in the feces. So, if you decide to
> propagate artificially, it improves germination to remove them from the
> red flesh."
>
> Thanks.
>
> MJ Hatfield