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From: Barry Yinger <asiatica at NNI.COM>
Subject: Re: Asarum references
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The book Toki no Hana, the Japanese picture book of Asarum, with my
translation, is available on our website www.asiaticanursery.com.  It
can be ordered on the website and can be shipped anywhere.

On Apr 2, 2004, at 10:12 PM, Petra Schmidt wrote:

> 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
> Viet
> 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
> spring
> 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
>> response
>> (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
>> University
>> 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
>> believe.
> 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
>>> rarely
>>>  spontaneously set seed in cultivation.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Barry
>>>
>>>  Is there anything approaching a comprehensive key/description/book
>>> on
>>> the whole Asarum genus? I know that you were working on the idea a
>>> few
>>> 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
>>> the
>>> NA species?
>>>
>>>  Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Jim McClements
>>>  50 S. Prestwick Ct, Dover, Delaware, 19904, USA, Zone 7a
>