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Subject: Re: Arisaema dilatatum germination quandry
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Thanks Paul & Ray,

I was wondering more along the line of what the sprout or germinated seed=would look like being that there would be no above ground part produced =the first season. Would it just be an extension with a tuberlet produced =at its tip and with possibly a root projecting from that? Like a regular =Arisaema seedling minus the petiole and leaf? Have never seen images or i=llustrations of this.

Bonaventure

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Tyerman <ptyerman at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:50 pm
Subject: Re: Arisaema dilatatum germination quandry

> At 02:43  26/01/05, you wrote:
> >At  1/25/2005 09:35 PM, you wrote:
> > From what I've seen seed will stay indefinitely in the moist
> paper towel
> >>if they're viable.
> >
> >Not exactly. Even in 40F temperatures they'll sprout in a few
> months. So
> >they won't keep indefinitely in moist paper towels.
>
> Ray,
>
> OK, you got me there. <grin>  I had meant that they would stay
> solid until
> they germinated .... I didn't mean that they'd last forever.  By
> indefinitely I had meant that they did not have a specific time
> that they
> would last and then rot, but rather they would stay solid for
> however long
> it took them to germinate.  Hadn't even thought of it being read
> as you
> did, but fair comment as it could read like that.
>
> Sorry for any lack of clarity.
>
>
> 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!!!!!
>