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Arisaema elephas Note the vertical spadix appendix exerted over the spathe. A medium size plant, it has a purple spathe with white veins. Grown and photographed by Giorgio Pozzi, May 2006.
Arisaema engleri The plants came from Chen nursery (China) as A.12/A.28 with a wrong name (A. sikokianum) . The first picture shows a green spathe; the second picture shows a purple spathe: March 2006. The third picture shows the detail of the inner portion of the spathe and the last shows a clump flowering in open ground: April 2007.
Grown and photographed by Giorgio Pozzi.
The following were not identified. Giorgio Pozzi suggests they are two forms of this species. Photo by Arnold Trachtenberg
Arisaema fargesii Photos by Mark Mazer. This species offsets freely, but has an attractive purple/white striped spathe. The tuber is reddish and somewhat glossy. Trifoliolate leaves with a large apical leaflet, turn a pleasant golden in the fall. Very similar to Arisaema franchetianum but differs in having strongly recurved mouth-margins, whereas, A. franchetianum does not.
This was on the Mystery Bulb page and has been identified as Arisaema fargesii. Large leaf obscures the spathe below. From Chen Yi in China. Photos by Arnold Trachtenberg
Another plant from Chen nursery, grown and photographed by Giorgio Pozzi, April 2005
Arisaema flavum comes in many different clones varying in size of plant and flower and intensity of color of the flower. It is the commonest species in cultivation, probably owing to its setting seed freely by self-pollination. It has cute, tubby little yellow flowers and pedatisect leaves, radiating in a fan from the petiole. Size varies from about a foot at first flowering to 3' in the "giant form". It is native to China and Yemen. Photos by John Lonsdale.
Arisaema franchetianum is very similar to A. fargesii. It is difficult to separate them as their characters give a continuum of forms and colours. A. franchetianum has a more galeate spathe; these plants have a reddish colour. Grown and photographed by Giorgio Pozzi, May 2006. The first picture shows the plant, and the second picture shows the spathe.
Arisaema galeatum has a recurved helmet-like spathe just like A. ringens, but is plain green to brown-purple with whitish veins and purple inside. It grows in the high forests of the Sino-Himalayan area. Grown and photographed by Giorgio Pozzi, May 2006. The plant shown in the first picture is from 100/120 cm tall; the second picture is a close-up of the flower. The third picture is of another view and the last shows a clump in cultivation.
Arisaema griffithii is a stunning plant with an impressive spathe. This plant came from Ganesh Mani Pradhan nursery (India). The male specimen is shown below, grown and photographed by Giorgio Pozzi. The second photo is a close up of the male spadix. Note the long spadix appendix. The third image shows a couple of plants in the garden, male at left, female at right, the fourth picture shows a classic spathe, April 2007. " During the last two years I harvested seeds from this species from different plants. They were fine and appeared healthy. I tried to start the germination process with some seeds just after the fruit spikes were ripened; no germination took place but the seeds developed fungus and soon were rotten. The same happened with the seeds I sent to a friend in USA. The remaining few seeds which were stored into the fridge till the following spring could germinate with a rate about 50% and I could collect nearly 25% tuberlets. May be this species doesn't like immediate germination process but these seeds need a period with partial water loss at low temperature to complete the ripening process so fungus cannot assault them. "
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