Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Arisaema season, who has any showing?, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
First, I must say I am mad on Arisaemas and have been slowly collecting.

New this year I have A speciosum, a mature bulb and seeds which have germinated. The bulb has a shoot through by about 3".

Also A nepenthoides, it has a beautiful patterned stem already a few inches tall.

A triphyllum received from a friend, and another which has already got a spathe and it wasn't certain which it was.

I have A ciliatum var. liubaense which flowered for the first time last year, I bought 2 tiny bulbs barely 1/4" across of which one rotted, the other took 5 years to flower. It has made several small bulbs as it is stoloniferous.

A fargesii, which I have had I think 3 years and it only really started to grow properly last year. It has made a couple of offsets, still waiting for it to flower.

A griffithii var. Pradhanii is just showing, I've had it for just over a year, it produced one good leaf last year and almost made a spathe. It's similar to but larger than A griffithii which I also had in the ground for 2 years before it showed, it grew 2 leaves for 2 years and disappeared for good! I now grow them all in pots in the greenhouse, only when I have any spare will I try them in the ground.

A consanguineum, which I have had for around 6 years and it has flowered the last 3 years.

I tried a mix of seed 3 years ago, a few came up and promptly wilted as I germinated them in the propogator re instructions to the temperature. I placed the pot in the greenhouse and later in the summer one more grew, which is now a nice, fat little bulb but still small. It had an almost proper leaf last year, which looked like A fargesii.

Some others I got recently are 3 small first cycle bulbs of A sikkokianum, which I started inside and they all have one leaf. I also got some seeds of the variegated leaf one free with them, waiting for germination.

I tried A tortuosum, it was a huge bulb and struggled to grow in the first year 05, but last year it had a reasonable leaf with a small baby leaf so I was hopeful. This spring I looked and there was nothing there, not even a gooey mess!

I would like to hear what others are growing, and your experiences with them.

The tall one in the front is A nepenthoides, behind to the right is A speciosum, the small one to the left is the uncertain bulb which looks to be what it is supposed to be, A triphyllum.