Well, if these were from 1997, they weren't from my plant. Mine were about 2004, but considering my Swiss Cheese memory, I can't have any faiyh in that number either. . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Herold" <rherold@yahoo.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:54 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Arisaema yunnanense >A funny coincidence... > > 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. > > I immediately went to my copy of Guy Gusman's arisaema book and ID'd > Andrew's plant as Arisema yunnanense v. aridum. I found my old > collection notes, and saw that it came from "West of Tiger Leaping > Gorge, Grassy hillside, big boulders, 6400'". There were 510 seeds from > this single collection, most of which went to the AEG and NARGS. My own > attempt to grow them failed miserably. Sigh. > > I can't say that the collection locale was especially dry, however. > There were huge round man-size boulders scattered over the entire > hillside, but the intervening vegetation was rather lush grass. We also > found Arisaema franchetianum growing in the same area, both on the > hillside and nearby in Tiger Leaping Gorge Village. > > Andrew gave me permission to post his photos on the wiki, but I'm too > busy right now to learn the new wiki protocol. I can send them to > someone more skilled for posting, however (Nhu, MSI, anyone?) > > --Roy > NW of Boston > Solid snow cover despite rain and 50F this week > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/