Re: D. Binata "T-form"????
L235@aol.com
Thu, 13 Jun 1996 14:36:11 -0400
Time to add my 2 cents-worth to the debate about D. binata "T-form." Not that
I want to argue with the more dogmatically-minded among us who have said
emphatically "If it grows more than two points at any time, it ain't t-form,"
but ... I've had a t-form for two years now, and each spring, just as it
emerges from winter dormancy, it sends up on truncated petioles, three- and
sometimes four pointed-leaves. Once the later spring crop of leaves grows, as
flower stalks begin to form, it reverts, invariably, and for the rest of the
season, to two-pointed leaves only.
In my mind, that's T-form, with some odd variability (the same kind of
variability that's known in many CP genera.)
Anyone? Anyone? (can't be as much fun as the CP mapping project controversy,
or the CITES posting, but what the hell ....)
Jay Lechtman
L235@aol.com