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Subject: Re: Arisaema dilatatum germination quandry
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So the bulb is on a process some distance away from the seed? Or is it th=e seed transforms into a bulb. I'm sorry, I'm one of those people who nee=ds a picture drawn.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Tyerman <ptyerman at OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:43 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
> producesa 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
> sittingat 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!!!!!
>