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Subject: Re: Arisaema dilatatum germination quandry
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Thanks Paul, Will have to do some more internet searching on this matter.

I gather it's monocots only?


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From: "Paul Tyerman" <ptyerman at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Arisaema dilatatum germination quandry


> >
>>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 =the
> second year but producing a bulb below ground.  Scadoxus puniceus produ=ces
> a bulb at ground level the first year, only producing its first leaf so=me
> months later.  You can see the bulb on that one though as they are sitt=ing
> at ground level.
>
>