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Re: New flowers

To: Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com, krombhol at teclink_net
Subject: Re: New flowers
From: Chuck Gadd <cgadd at cfxc_com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 01:40:05 -0600
Delivered-To: fixup-Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com@fixme
References: <200005170748.DAA09869 at actwin_com>

> It probably is a somewhat modified leaf that is sometimes produced before
> the flower is.  All flower parts are essentially modified leaves---the
> sepals, petals, stamens, and ovary are all modified leaves.  The "bananas"
> are probably roots, modified for storage.  The spot on the main stem that

Thanks for the cool info.

> If you still have one of these structures, try opening it up and see if it
> looks like a leaf inside.  Are there veins?  Is it green?

Yup, you win!  One of these modified leaves stayed in the water, and it
opened to form a small 1" diameter floating leaf.

My banana plant is still happy, sending up a new runner with a
meristematic region every day or two.  I've started pulling out the
maturing new plantlets to prevent them from stealing all the light
in the tank.   I don't know what magic happened, but it's only 
this one banana plant.  There is another in the same tank, on the
opposite side, and it's runners don't have the growth points.

--
Chuck Gadd

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