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| In Spring of 2010 I bought a tuber, it was 31 mm in diameter. |
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| The awakening. Photos taken on 8th and 12th May. |
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| On the 15th May the top of the spathe and two leaves appeared. |
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| 21st May, the spathe before the opening. |
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| 23rd may, the inflorescence fully open. |
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| Some photos on a shady day, 25th May. |
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A spider was walking up and down the inflorescence.
It rather wasn't pollinating the flowers, but it waited for visiting insects. |
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The inflorescence was female. |  |  |
| An adult plant produces 2 leaves from one tuber, each of them consists usually of 5 leaflets. |
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There were none of male flowers of A. sikokianum, but the flowers became pollinated.
In the same time a closely related A. amurense bloomed near. |
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| The ripening infructescence in September and October. |
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| The same infructescence in November and December. It ripened at home. |
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There were 1-3 seeds in one fruit, about 2.5 mm
I sowed them, but... I really don't know what I did to the pot where they were sown.
The only thing that remained was to beg the good Earth for a female inflorescence next year. |
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| The diameter of the tuber increased to 37 mm (from 31). |
