Roy, very much enjoyed your post, and the informative pictures. One of my favorites in the spring for sure. And I love a little arisaema, any day. Bridget On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Roy Herold via pbs <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote: > Folks, > > I've been meaning to post an update to the status of the huge population > of Erythronium americanum that I found this spring. > > Browse through my album of pictures on Flickr to see what they looked like: > > https://flickr.com/photos/31950571@N06/… > > These are growing alongside the Aberjona River in Woburn MA, near a rather > dull industrial area (note the abandoned tractor trailer). There are tens > of thousands of individual plants, although the number of distinct clones > is probably small due to their stoloniferous nature. > > I found one area that was threatened by a dirt bike track and thought it > was worth saving a few plants. Towards the end of the album are some bulbs > I dug in early May that show how deeply they grow, and the stolons forming > on the non-blooming ones that were closer to the surface. > > The bulbs for the BX were dug after the foliage had gone dormant. I was > amazed to find a dense tangle of spaghetti-like stolons, each of which had > a little bulb forming at the tip. I threw them in a plastic bag and brought > them home, where they sat for a few weeks. When I unwrapped them, the > spaghetti strands had dried up and the little bulbs had tripled in size. > Most curious. > > Enjoy, > > --Roy > NW of Boston > 90F today > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >