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From: Wilbert Hetterscheid <hetter at XS4ALL.NL>
Subject: Re: Arisaema / Pinellia
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Hi Bonaventure,

Now DON'T tell me you are suggesting that Pinellia is a GYMNOSPERM!!!!
Naked seeds??? No way. There IS a berry around them but of the "dry" type=,
which doesn't strike anyone as a genuine berry but it really is. It just
isn't juicy but morphologically a berry nonetheless.

Also Pinellia's, as any aroid, have a central stem, which is in fact the
tuber in the soil. Leaves and inflorescences are "appendages" of the stem
and sometimes in aroids the bases of leaves are sheathing and surrounding
each other at the base over a noticeable length and thus forming a
"pseudostem". Several Arisaema species do that. Pinellia's don't.

Cheerio,
WIlbert


> Pinellia seeds have no "berry" around them, that is, they are naked. Th=ey
> develop in about 2 weeks also and easily shed from the "fruit", spreadi=ng
> everywhere. There is no central stem, or whatever its called. In the
> flower I noticed the female part of the spadix is fused to the back of =the
> spathe.
> Bonaventure
>> I would have thought the other way around... unless my memory is
>> off a bit... and sometimes that happens. Correct me if I am wrong,
>> but does not A. dracontium have the bloom on the same stem as the
>> foliage? Pinellia has the inflorescence on a separate stem... one
>> for foliage, one for "bloom"?
>>    Gene E. Bush
>> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
>> www.munchkinnursery.com
>> genebush at munchkinnursery.com
>> Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Jim McClements, Dover, DE z6
>>
>>
>>
>>    I will try to take a picture of what I believe to be A.
>> dracontium in my garden and post it in the next few days.  Mayhaps
>> it isn=92t.
>>
>>
>>  Easy to tell from Pinellia tripartita if you look at the foliage
>> instead of the inflorescence.
>>
>>  Jim
>>
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