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>penicillin?  Are there  plants other than arisaemas that do this
>routinely--making a protocorm is only hypogeal the first year?

Adam,

Many Lilium species are hypogeal germinators, not issuing a leaf until th=e
second year but producing a bulb below ground.  Scadoxus puniceus produce=s
a bulb at ground level the first year, only producing its first leaf some
months later.  You can see the bulb on that one though as they are sittin=g
at ground level.


Cheers.

Paul Tyerman
Canberra, Australia.  USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9

Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Trilliums, Cyclamen,
Crocus, Cyrtanthus, Oxalis, Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just
about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!