Arisaema-L Gallery Image Upload (2483) Arisaema sikokianum hybrid

[Christopher Gussman]

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Jim-
As I said before, these are awesome.........even moreso if they are =persistent.   I do not know much about takedae and would have to look it =up, but I know that sikokianum does not normally offset.  Do these =hybrids do so?  Do the hybrids form normal seed?

Thank you for sharing these photos!  -Chris
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I have just uploaded 2 photos to the gallery of the descendents and =originals of a cross made by Roy Herold about 20 years ago, when only a =few of us had contracted the "arisaema bug". 


At that time people were falling in love with sikokianum and some of =us wondered why Roy was trying to "improve on perfection". 


However, it has become apparent to most over the intervening years =that while sikokianum is almost uniquely attractive, grows "like cress" =from seed and initially does well in the garden, it often is quite =short-lived and frustratingly disappears after one or two years. 


I think that you'll agree that the plant I posted the photo of is =almost as spectacular as sikokianum, and it and its siblings have been =in my garden since 1999.



I'd add that Don Jacobs sold me a sikokianum/takedae hybrid in 1991, =but it has long since disappeared. 


Comments? 




JIm   






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