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From: Marge Talt <mtalt at HORT.NET>
Subject: Re: who is eating my arisaema
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I will second Ellen's opinion.  We had a wild turkey visit a couple
of years ago - the only one I've ever seen.  I was enthralled
watching it from the house until I went out and found it had
systematically destroyed all the A. triphyllum clumps along its route
- or tried to...the ground was rock hard, so it didn't get to the
tubers, but it sure shredded all the above ground foliage and stems,
leaving amazing ruts in that rock hard clay where it was scratching.
I'm hoping its visit was an aberration that will not occur again!

My local herd of deer doesn't touch Arisaema, other than walking on
them; that's not to say no deer eat them elsewhere.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Ellen Hornig <hornig at OSWEGO.EDU>
> Kathy - I bet it's wild turkeys. They really do eat A. triphyllum
(can't
> find the book right now, but it's listed as one of their foods),
and in
> our woods they demolished most of the exsiting population when they
moved
> in.  The pulling and pecking is characteristic  -I found hundreds
of
> arisaema corpses lying about, bruised and shredded.  It's not a
pretty
> sight...