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

[Al Wootten]

Alas, I've planted Arisaema sikokianum several times but all plantings
have vanished.  The hybridization approach certainly seems to have paid
off in this instance.  Does anyone have a hybridization program going on
or are the ari aficionados too small a group?

Clear skies,
Al


jimmcclem wrote:
> 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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