Hi Peter,
Unfortunately I can't help you to solve your problem, sorry. But I found a nice German-Latin-translator-site:
http://cu-here.de/dic.php3?german=geist&type=german
For 'Ghost' would be the best choice 'Phasma', I suppose. 'Spiritus' has a more intellectual, clerical meaning
Good luck with your Titan Arum-seedlings!
Bye
hermann

**vbg***
I think I will stay on Amorphophallus titanum var. spiritus

I love the idea of a clerical penis

greetings
Peter

Here are some pics of my white beauty:
http://www.baumfarn.at/gal_Aro.php?treefern=49
Page to the right, there are 3 pics

greetings
Peter

Peter,
Your titanum is BEAUTIFUL! I say "A.Titanum Spiritus" sounds good to me! Pale to nearly pale isn't saying enough! Your pictures look PRUE WHITE TO ME! Its beautiful! I don't think you can put this plant in any sun, and I am JUST GUESSING... but plant food in water only... nothing on the foliage?!?!?!?! JUST A GUESS!
Get us more pictures as you can!
Hope it grows well for you!
DAVID

Currently I spray the 'trunk' one time a day with water added a very low amout of organic fertilizer:
The same water/fertilizer I use for my treeferns and some orchids.
N 1,5 %
P205 0,6 %
K20 4,1 %
MgO 4,4 %
Cu 0,06 %
Zn 0,04 %
Mn 0,05 %
Fe 0,16 %
Mo 0,006 %

But some components like ferum are sulfatic no chelate.

greetings
Peter

That is cool! I hope you do post more pics, I would love to see them.

I just recently smelled my first stinky one this spring Draculus vulgaris. It's a beauty but stinks to high heaven. My bulb company wasn't quite truthful about it being a "unique" smell. It had flies for visitors plus some other things.

Here's a blood red one to go with the white.

http://plumeriatc.org/morestuff/DraculusVulgaris.html

Whoa! Is that unique or are there any more of this cultivar floating around?

Treefern - absolutely STUNNING! Good luck with it.

I don't have any amorphs right now, but that gorgeous white puts the black ones to shame!

Susan

I would imagine something like that will not live long. Take as many pictures as you can! Where did the seeds come from? That is really strange.

Hi all

Those all came from a batch of seeds I collected from a lowland titanum, about 6 months ago.
I too ended up with a HEAP of white seedlings, that I was afraid would all die.
The good news is that while mine did all lose their first petioles after about 2 months, they are now growing a second, normal petiole with green pigment.
I hope Peter and his friends are getting the same results.

Cheers, Troy.

Seaninaro - yes, the draconium vulgaris is pollinated by flies. It seems that anything that smells like dead meat attracts flies rather than other pollinators like bees.

Susan

Hi Troy,
two of this seedlings produce a white leaf again without loosing the first leaf. I hope that the other (2) white seedlings, that lost the petiole completely, make it like yours.

Frank

Hi Frank

If they don't produce a normal leaf and die, please email me.

Cheers, Troy.

Hi all, I too have one white titanum seedling amongst the green ones. And yes I got it from Troy about 6 months ago. Hopefully it will survive. I'm not optimistic that it will survive given that there's no chlorophyll. Hopefully it grows a green leaf like Troy's seedlings do. Troy, did all your white ones produce a green leaf? Or some didn't and died? Mine still has one white petiole and not doing much. I find A. peaoniifolius rather difficult to grow. The roots rot easily.

Mygweb