Jingdongense

[Martin Ashworth]

Thanks Guy
Your source if the same as mine is Paul Christian, Rare Plants, Wrexham,
Wales.
I also bought A. rhombiforme from him and this has turned out to be A.
franchetianum.
Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gusman Guy" <ggusman at ULB.AC.BE>
To: <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: Jingdongense


> I also bought a tuber of "A. jingdongense" - probably from the same
source - that appeared to be a small form of a SINARISAEMA, which has
nothing to do with A. jingdongense. According to H. Peng & H. Li who
described the species, it should have a yellow spathe without stripes and
the appendix is short and orange yellow.
> I never saw this species in the trade.
> Best wishes.
> Guy
>
> >Hi all, need some help. I bought a tuber of what was described as
jingdongense, 'a perfect minature'. Now that it has flowered, the colour of
the flower is not as described by Guy as sulphur yellow but more like
consanguineum subsp. kelung-insulare in colour. A desciption follows;
> >Pseudostem - 25cm
> >Petiole - 13cm
> >Leaflets - 11, 11.5cm long, 1cm wide, acuminate - short point. Edges not
wavy.
> >Peduncle - 4cm
> >Spathe tube - 6cm long, 1cm wide. Pale green, white stripes
> >Spathe appendix - 4cm long, 3.5 cm wide at widest point
> >Spathe mouth - recurved, 2cm wide
> >Spadix cylindrical, female + neuters. Pale green.
> >
> >Can jingdongense be pale green, white stripes in colour and is it really
this small?
> >I can e-mail a photo to anyone who would like to see it.
> >
> >Martin
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