Mark, Roy, et al., My seed came from AEG, but I can't give you the distribution numbers. I don't have my notebooks handy at the moment. I have grown them in pots from the start. They grow 3 or 4 months in a greenhouse or under lights, then I dry the pot off and put it in the fridge for 3 or 4 months. They have bloomed several times, but I only set seed (manual pollination) this last time. They are currently dormant; maybe I should repot them before letting them try to grow again. When they decide to grow in summer, I put the pot out in the lath house, under overhead sprinklers for irrigation. They get all the natural rainfall there, plus 2 x overhead watering from the irrigation system. I've no idea how long they will live under this regimen, but so far so good. Besides, I have at least a half-dozen tiny green shoots coming up in the seed pot. I was going to send some of this seed to the AEG, but I can't recall whether I ever did or not. I was blissfully unaware that they were rare or might be hard to grow. I made no attempt to grow them outdoors in the ground however. Regards, Jim Shields in cold Westfield, Indiana USA At 07:54 AM 1/27/2010 -0500, Roy wrote: >A couple of years ago Andrew Broome from New Zealand sent me some photos >of an arisaema he was growing. (You may know of Andrew from the Oxalis >group.) He said he got seed of this plant from the Arisaema Enthusiast >Group in 1997, and that I (!) was the donor. However the ID was only as >"Arisaema sp. 102004" from my trip to Yunnan in 1996. >............. >--Roy >NW of Boston >Solid snow cover despite rain and 50F this week ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA