Arisaema hybrids

[Al Wootten]

Paul

Indeed I agree with you.  I have given up on sikokianum despite its
beauty; if hybridization could breed more robustness into the species
while maintaining the attractive form I believe this is impetus enough.

Clear skies,
Al
Paul wrote (in part:)
> If you could get a flower like sikokianum on something that is as robust as
> triphyllum it would be extremely attractive and far less likely to never
> emerge from its dormancy, plus you might get the benefit of being able to
> grow it from offsets rather than growing it from seed and then hoping that
> you can actually get some of the seedlings through the various dormancies
> to actually get to flowering size!!  In the case of my own seedlings from
> AEG seedex seed... each year less of the sikokianums come back for me and I
> have a feeling that by the time they get to flowering size there won't be
> any of them left to flower <sigh>.  On the other hand I have triphyllums
> which are already nearly flowering size and I think will likely have
> offsets starting to form on them this dormancy).