[Aroid-l] Anthurium whitelockii

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at exoticrainforest.com> on 2009.01.03 at 16:23:18 Jared, I just looked up RanchoSoledad's website and it appears they sell more hybridized plants or atleast plants using a pseudo-name than species.  They didn't showanything called "Anthurium whitelockii" but it isn't uncommon fornurseries to create a pseudo identification for plants hich they don'thave a verified name.  At least one of the plants on their site appearsto be an unusual variant form of a commonly available Anthuriumspecies but sold using a created name.  There is a plant grown all over South Florida which everyone knows as"Philodendron wilsonii".  That species is truly Philodendronsubincisum Schott but very few people down there know the realspecies name.  How the name Philodendron wilsonii is known since one ofthe original sellers was Bob Wilson.  He apparently used his own nameas a joke but it has stuck for many years.  The name you were given maybe only a nursery trade name. As for your seedlings, Anthurium seedlings often emerge with acordate blade (heart shaped) that is upside down and only once theybegin to mature do they change to the shape we are used to seeing.  Iwould check beneath the soil and see if these seedlings are sproutingfrom the stem or free growing since new growth from a stem node is notuncommon.  If free growing it is of course possible you had seeds fromthis or another species in the soil. Steve Lucas www.ExoticRainforest.com Tom Croat wrote: Steve:              What I once called Anthuriumwhitelockii turned out to be another new species which is nowpublished, namelyA. faustomirandae M. PerezFarrara & Croat ThusA.whitelockii is no more, just what we call an herbarium name.   Tom   oid-l --------------040402060600000007090204

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