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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
It is always humorous and also a little sad reading a statement like this but hopefully
most readers realize that it is false, there is no genetically predetermined number of
leaves that will be produced before a flower bud is initiated.
A cursory examination of a few mature corms should improve one's
understanding of how and where the bud and leaves are formed.
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I think you are probably right. In a bit of searching, I could not find any published research that supported my claim. To be clear, I was not saying that a plant will make some magic number of leaves and then fruit (though you can certainly find stuff on the internet that makes that claim). I was trying to say that some cultivars make more leaves on average before fruiting than others. But as I said, I can't find any data that support that claim. I also could't find any data that refuted it, but I wouldn't bet money on it.
Is it humorous and sad, really? I understand where the meristem is, but that has nothing to do with how many leaves are produced before flower initiation. Unless you count all the leaves produced before flowering by many plants of different varieties, I'm not sure how you could figure out if different varieties make different numbers of leaves. I'm pretty compulsive, but not enough to do the necessary counting. (But the answer is 36 for one Dwarf Brazilian in my yard.)