CT 369

[Wilbert Hetterscheid]

In the meantime, material of this seed batch has been officially published
by Eric Gouda & Guy Gusman as Arisaema ciliatum var. liubaense. The
confusion of what is and what isn't Arisaema consanguineum is not yet over
though......

Wilbert

----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Wills <simon.wills at TESCO.NET>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: zondag 23 juli 2000 23:51
Subject: Re: CT 369


> Anne - and others who may have grown this - I got the original plant from
> Washfield Nursery in Kent, as A. ciliatum CT 369 in 1992, and I believe
that
> they grew it from seed collected by Carla Teune in China.  But I have also
a
> letter from Dr. Simon Mayo to Mr. Michael H Hoog (which Mr. Hoog sent me),
> written in 1985, saying that it appears to be a form of A. consanguineum
> Schott, distinguished from the usual Himalayan form by its purple spathe.
>
> It certainly is not distinctly ciliate, so far as I can see, but it is a
> good nurseryman's plant as it produces masses of offsets, usually on
> stolons, as well as some seed
>
> I hope that this helps
>
> Simon
>