LindaSC, do I detect a new plant passion? tehe, the enabler strikes again!
The leaves remind me of a large eagle with it's wings poised ready for take off. It is a tall plant, well worth growing.
Arisaema season, who has any showing?
wallaby~
The way the "dangly thing" touches the ground makes me think of it as a very convenient ladder for a flightless insect to climb to reach the flower most easily. Wonder if that is part of its evolution?
R.
Hmmm, R, I was thinking myself that it would be dragging along the ground if it was in the ground. The dangly thing is nearly to the bottom of the pot, so you could be on to something there.
I had wondered what the purpose of that would be, but my attention went in the direction of those wing-like leaves, wondering why they were that shape.
Could it be that the plant always faces a certain direction, I was thinking if it faced say towards a prevailing wind which may bring an insect, which would fly at a certain level above the ground and that tilt of the leaves could deflect an insect towards the ground.
THEN, it could climb up the ladder! Good story anyway, and there may be some truth in some of it. Nature provides.
A nepenthoides is still going, this taken yesterday after a month. The spadix is shrivelling, today the spathe looks to be going too. The marks on the stem look even darker.
The larger A triphyllum after 3 weeks.
The last of A triphyllum was a small bulb and late to grow. The stem sheath is mottled, the stem started red but has aged to a soft purple.
This was taken on 22nd, 4 days ago, it is amazing how quickly these grow and flower once they start.
Today the spathe was open, and this evening the hood was stood vertically showing the near black colour.
Wallaby... here in the midwest U.S., we have the green-spathed and black-spathed triphyllums. Here is a picture of a typical black; these are volunteers (or is it invaders) in my wooded garden flower beds. They pop up, and form huge clumps, 3 ft. tall.
There must be a lot of different variations of triphyllum, I'm now waiting to see if mine has those lovely mottled leaf stems yours has!
Popping up and forming huge clumps, invasive, sounds wonderful to me!
Does anyone know a good source for Arisaema? I know now isnt the time to be buying them up, but is there a website I can look to for this fall/winter to beef up my collection for next year?
chris
chris, plantdelights has a good range. jacquesamand has a good variety here, the US store does too. The only problem with them is they don't always have what is listed, and the autumn and spring catalogues are permanently online. They don't substitute though, their bulbs are always flowering size and healthy.
http://www.jacquesamand.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=JA&Category_Code=Ariseama
Thanks wallaby1. Another question for yall- What Arisaema can I get that propegate quick so that I can cheaply get a good sized bed full of these?
I know that triphyllum offsets pretty easily.. are there others?
also are offsets the best way at propegating these guys or are seeds a better way?
Or is it just better to bite the bullet and shell out some cash if I want to get a handful of them ?
Chris
Seed sowing can be OK if the seed is cheap enough, and fresh, if not fresh you may waste your money and may as well put it towards a mature bulb. Apart from that, some take years to flower but as zonedenial stated above, his sikokianum only took two years to flower. In our cool climate I think it might take longer.
I wonder why sikokianum is so expensive if they mature so quickly! Others such as speciosum are huge bulbs for little money so it would be wisest to buy a bulb, seed can cost as much. Also by buying dormant bulbs not growing in pots will be cheaper.
I have decided that this autumn will be an arisaema stocking year, put all my spending into that instead of other things (oh ye). I figure I may as well have a few of what is most interesting to me than many that are not so interesting. Then again I have got to the point where I have already tried most other things, and I have been successful in my methods of growing arisaemas so now is the time.
Some of the later Jacks are starting to bloom: this is Arisaema intermedium; nice long thread, and the leaves are really unusual: though not as large as some, they are very waxy and heavy.
Don
Arisaema costatum is a very cool Jack from China; it's about two feet tall, and the spadix has a very long, thread-like "tail" that extends clear to the ground.
Don
I don't think I have seen A intermedium before, many arisaemas do have very nice leaves.
A costatum is a strange one, it doesn't seem to open it's spathe or does that happen later. Great colour!
My A ciliatum var. liubaense are racing now, the original one has grown a few inches very quickly and many offsets showing, they are in another pot. A consanguineum has appeared too. A. fargesii has a single leaf but it's still small, that is so slow.
The pot of A speciosum seedlings,
ok.. I have to contribute some of my pics. This is my 2nd year with Arisaema and I am HOOKED .. these are amazing, wonderful plants.
I had gotten a bit burnt out from growing amorphophallus... Many are too big to be easy for my space. Many of the more tropical species iether wont grow within my short season in the northwest, or have dormancy periods that wont match up with the growing seasons here.
Arisaema are proving to be a beautiful plant , that can also get to a nice size, that seem to do very well in this climate.
Any way.. here are some pics of this years crop.
This is one of the arisaema tortuosum that im growing. The others got started later, and are just now poking above the soil.
these are some of my triphyllums
ok .. one last one, I promise.
This is A. costatum. This is one of the most photo tropic plants I have ever seen. I bet if you looked long enough you could see it moving to track any bit of sun.
Ah, the wonderful speciosum. Arisaemas are amazing, more so when you see them in person. The spathes last a long time too, where Arums last generally a couple of days Arisaemas last a month.
I have to get another tortuosum, they are supposed to have a long whiplash which goes upwards, yours is cut short Chris. I see you grow some in pots too, how do you overwinter them? Our growing season is short too but greenhouses can help.
A costatum is on the list too! That's a great shot, I wonder if the stripes are like solar panels...
The tortuosum infloresence wasnt cut down, the top portion of the spadix kinda shrivled up and dried off. Im not sure what happend. The plant looks healthy, and the leaf petioles have a very cool reptilian coloration on them .
Last year I dug up the bulbs and stored them in semi moist soil in my cool garage. We have very wet winters, and with all of the burrowing animals I wouldnt feel safe leaving them if I dont have any backups. Even though I know Aroids have some intracellular defenses agaianst mammals, I still dont feel safe with all of the moles/gophers we have around here. So, Im going to grow some in pots until I get enough back ups to risk a few.
I cut open 2 of my A triphyllum infloresence and found hundreds of little dead gnats collected in the base of it. I am not sure why they were dead, perhaps short lived? In any case, tonight Im going to go out with a flash light and see if I can see what pollinaters are visiting.
I was going to cut the Speciosum flower and give it to a friend, but seeing as you say they last a month Ill just hang on and enjoy it for a few weeks.
A. fargesii is now blooming (one of my favs); I really like its huge, shiny leaves:
Here is the fargesii flower:
wow ! nice. I planted mine a bit late and its just now coming poking out of the ground. I love this one
Skilled... you're sure right about costatum being phototropic. I didn't know that when I planted mine, and it's in a spot that's a bit too shady... I about have to tie it to a two X four to keep it from flopping over towards the light.
Don
My costatum is planted a short distance away from our dining room window, and at night there may be just a smidgen of light coming out( i wouldnt have thought enough to stir the plants at all). Last night I went outside and found that the Costatum had flopped completely backward on itself and was leaning to the minute bit of light coming from the window. I had thought maybe the stem was broken ... or it has lost turgor, but nope it was completly fine... just lookin for light. This would have taken place in the span of 2 hrs or so. Now that it is morning, it seems to be bending back to the direction the sun is coming from .. the complete opposite direction.
Every time I look at this plant it is facing a different direction... weird little thing.
A. flavum, just peeking out of its unfolding foliage; you can see why it's called the owl arisaema. i assume this is ssp. abberviatum.
don
Cute!
I must proofread: I meant to type ssp. abbreviatum above for A. flavum. Anyway, A. candidissimum is now open, with its white spathe. Supposedly they have a perfume, but I don't smell anything. Pretty, anyway. It and flavum are so odd; they just poke their noses out of the ground in early May, then just sit there for three weeks, then in just a few days shoot up their leaves and open their flowers.
Don
Arisaema maximowiczii
has been in bloom for about a week now, stands about 2' tall
zonedenial, we all do that with typing, one side of the brain gets ahead of the other! The white candidissimum is available here but expensive!
I was researching some of the species I found on the small nursery 39 Steps, soon I think I will be making enquiries! They have A moximowiczii, I like the deep green, but there are others calling me even more!
For more sources if anyone is interested there is Hillkeep
http://www.hillkeep.ca/bulbs%20arisaema.htm
Asiatica nursery
http://asiaticanursery.com/index.php/cPath/1?osCsid=e68860aa5caf81892c1a2fc7dd702f9e
Arisaema iyoanum var. nakaianum is getting my attention!
My A consanguineum is now shooting up fast. I have nice pearly green berries making on the first two A triphyllum, they must be self fertile as they opened at different times.
39 steps must be a fantastic nursery to visit; you're so lucky to have so many great places like that (or maybe, for your pocketbook's sake, it's not such a good deal).
Arisaema galeatum (galea being Latin for helmet) is blooming. The leaf stalk is almost 3 ft. tall, with three huge leaflets, the flower structure is on a separate, short stalk, and is deep green.
The A. galeatum floral structure:
The leaf structure looks alot like speciosum, what does the petiole coloration look like ?
Very beautiful plant Don.
Although the two plants basically look a lot alike, the leaves of galeatum are much wider and blunter, a bit more deeply imprinted with the veining, and the petiole is pure, shiny apple green with none of the maroon streaking of speciosum.
Don
Well it looks like I have new item on my wish list then... I hear they get large tubers as well .. Not that size matters or anything.
Very large!
zonedenial,
Very nice A. galeatum, how long have you had it? How large across is the leaf?