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In a message dated 12/19/01 9:22:16 AM, awootten at NRAO.EDU writes:

<< Should I dig up and store the mature blooming tubers?  I haven't manag=ed to
coax any from seed to tuberlet, so this past year I purchased several
(sikokianum and another) from Plant Delights, and had just left them wher=e
I put them between azaleas at the top of a small rise off the back patio.
>>

Al

If you want to go to the trouble, they probably have a better chance of
lasting if they are dug and stored dry. A. sikokianum, in particular, has=the
nasty habit of disappearing after a year or two, presumably due to winter
rot, even in what seems to be a well-drained situation.

However, I have yet to do that with any species, at least up to now, but =I
admit that I seem to have a few each year that vanish.

Jim

Jim McClements
50 S. Prestwick Ct.
Dover, DE 19904
Zone 7a