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From: Petra Schmidt <petra at PLANTDELIGHTS.COM>
Subject: Re: Asarum references
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Check the homepage of Flora of China project (www.fna.org/china/)
family Aristolochiaceae, genus Asarum, lots of info there.
Also check the Fora of North America, Vol.3, family Aristolochiaceae,
already published, for info on natives.

Now - regarding arisaema, I saw a wonderful A. hainanense at MO recently,
not yet in bloom, but a nice healthy potted plant of it, collected in Vie=t
Nam (no, MO doesn't have extras).  Here at PDN, we have had great success
with overwintering A. balansae (also from Viet Nam), now 3 years in the
ground.  A. cordatum, on the other hand, is not hardy but we have a nice
specimen just emerging inside the greenhouse...a sure sign that our sprin=g
has arrived.
Petra



----- Original Message -----
From: "Pacific Rim" <paige at HILLKEEP.CA>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:20 PM
Subject: Asarum references, was gnat pollinators


> About references for Asarum and its kin:
>
> 1. There is, or was, a Japanese book about Asarum s.l. offered on Barry='s
> Asiatica website. Periodically I attempt to order it but get no respons=e
> (though I have had replies about other things).  Is the book still
available
> and if so will you ship it to Canada, Barry?
>
> 2. What about the papers by Lawrence Kelly, formerly of Cornell Univers=ity
> and now of the New York Botanical Garden? He has been working on the
> treatment of Asarum/Hexastylis for the Flora of North America, I believ=e.
I
> am no botanist but based on his several published papers he appears to =be
> familiar not only with the physical traits, large and small, of the
various
> possible taxa but also with the problems and traps of cladistics.
Comments,
> anyone?
>
> Paige Woodward
> paige at hillkeep.ca
> www.hillkeep.ca
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Yinger" <asiatica at NNI.COM>
> To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:53 PM
> Subject: Re: gnat pollinators was: What is the name of this plant?
>
>
> Dear Jim,
>
> There really isn't anything.  Unfortunately, with my manuscript, field
> notes, slides, and library gone, I don't know if I have the energy to
> start over on the project.  But it should be done, and I don't know
> anyone else to do it.
>
> Barry
>
> On Apr 2, 2004, at 3:47 PM, Jim McClements, Dover, DE z6 wrote:
>
> >
> >  In a message dated 4/1/04 6:10:14 PM, asiatica at NNI.COM writes:
> >
> >
> >
> > Various species are more or less discriminating about their
> >  pollinator(s). The plants in subgenera Asarum and Asiasarum are
> >  generally less discriminating, and those in subgenera Heterotropa
> >  (Japan and China) and Hexastylis (America and maybe China) are more
> >  specific. Chinese and Japanese species in subgenus Heterotropa rarel=y
> >  spontaneously set seed in cultivation.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  Barry
> >
> >  Is there anything approaching a comprehensive key/description/book o=n
> > the whole Asarum genus? I know that you were working on the idea a fe=w
> > years ago.
> >
> >  If nothing in one place, what would you recommend as a group of
> > resources, particularly the Chinese species that Chen Yi sells and th=e
> > NA species?
> >
> >  Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >  Jim
> >
> >
> >
> >  Jim McClements
> >  50 S. Prestwick Ct, Dover, Delaware, 19904, USA, Zone 7a



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