Enthusiast Group (AEG)

Membership

The Arisaema Enthusiasts Group (AEG) is a worldwide organization sharinginformation, seed, tubers, etc. There is an online membership list, but you need the password to access it (it is the same as for the literature access).

The price for joining is to send three things:

1. A list of your collection of A. species with numbers of plants
in each of the categories below:

(mature) Survived 2-3 years but has not flowered

(flowered) Has flowered

(set seed) Has set seed

(immature) Survived one winter

(seedlings) has a leaf, but has not survived one winter

(died).

The categories are mutually exclusive. So, a plant that set seed, must have bloomed, and must be mature, but it is only listed once as "set seed".

PLEASE include number of plants for each species in each category and SORT by SPECIES NAME. It saves me a lot of effort.

2. Your hardiness zone.

3. Your e-mail address.

4. Your snail-mail address. Seed don't travel the internet too well.

We send you an AEG Info-Pack of the membership list, the most comprehensive Arisaema species list in the world, a great
Arisaema bibliography, a copy of your collection inventory, and a sample KEY

We have a discussion list, Arisaema-L, for members. The list is principally for information on Arisaema, but includes
other hardy aroids from Arum to Zantedeschia.

AEG supports 2 Arisaema web pages:

and also provides a web site for identifying Arisaema species

http://florapix.nl/Arisaema-L/Ident/index.htm

and several other Arisaema sites run by members are linked to the Arisaema page.

We have done seed distributions for the last few years. In 1999 we distributed 14818 seed of 27 species to 114 members worldwide. Although Seedex-2003 is completed, I don't have these numbers yet. Current membership is 231 from over 24 countries worldwide.

If you will have seed to share, please send them to:

Drs. Eric J. Gouda
P.O. Box 80.162
3508 TD Utrecht
The Netherlands

Eric is currently managing the seed distribution.

The cost of running AEG is born by voluntary member donations, usually after each seed distribution. They've been running from $10 to $15 per member/year.

If you're interested, drop me a line, or an E-mail, with the required information.

G. R. Stilwell, Jr.
11900 Coachman's Way
Raleigh, NC 27614

When you become a member, you will be instated on Arisaema-L automatically.

Hoping to hear from you...........

Ray Stilwell

Last modified: May 2011 by E.J.Gouda