Re: [Aroid-l] aroids for teaching/Anthuriums

From: <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2009.01.11 at 11:50:06 Dear Carol=2C And thanks to my friend Derek and others for reminding us of the obvious! =3B =3B Talk about me not seeing the woods for the trees! =3B Anthuriums=2C the hybrid kind like the "Lady Jane" series would be one of THE easiest to obtain (K-Mart=2C Home Depot-type stores)=2C and would be easy to grow=2C of the correct size=2C and ALMOST ever-blooming! =3B They occur in several different colored blooms=2C from purple to scarlet to white=2C MANY booms as Derek points out! =3B =3B I sometimes have to visit a VERY large Hotel on Palm beach=2C and these Anthurums are used extensively as cover around the bases of their huge potted plants. =3B =3B To see the kids (and many adults!=2C obviously Northerners) stop=2C stare and giggle at the suggestivly phalic but BEAUTIFUL blooms always brings cheer to my old heart. =3B =3B I`d ''complement'' the collection with a couple of Spathiphyllum floribundums just for the variety and =3B ''change''=2C but then again that`s just me. =3B =3B Anything else would be gravy=2C like the Spathicarpas kindly offered by my friend Don and others! The Best=2C Julius >=3B From: dburch23@bellsouth.net >=3B To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com >=3B Date: Sat=2C 10 Jan 2009 17:53:33 -0500 >=3B Subject: [Aroid-l] aroids for teaching >=3B >=3B Carol=2C I wonder if you may be making this too difficult for yourself. There >=3B are some very common things - cultivars for the most part but a few species >=3B are available -which fit your size requirement and free-blooming need=2C and >=3B are easy to grow (that is why they have become common). >=3B >=3B There is no point going for "rare". The students will not learn anything >=3B more from a plant scarcely known to science than they will from my >=3B suggestions: the new more dwarf anthuriums sold as flowering pot plants=2C and >=3B Spathiphyllum. The anthuriums in particular are almost ever-blooming=2C and >=3B are so floriferous that several classes can tear each up an inflorescence >=3B without you grieving over the end of a flowering cycle. If you want to make >=3B an interesting comparison=2C grow some Spathicarpa=2C and there is a sure-fire >=3B way to get them speculating about what bits are comparable and what are not. >=3B >=3B I'm sure that you will get some other great ideas from real aroiders=2C but I >=3B taught taxonomy for so long that I tend to shy away from fancy and go for >=3B what is sure to work. >=3B >=3B Regards=2C Derek >=3B >=3B -----Original Message----- >=3B From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] >=3B On Behalf Of Carol McCarthy >=3B Sent: Thursday=2C January 08=2C 2009 2:51 PM >=3B To: Discussion of aroids >=3B Subject: [Aroid-l] aroid recommendations >=3B >=3B Hello Good People=2C >=3B >=3B I work at a university greenhouse that supports=2C among other things=2C >=3B the teaching of a plant taxonomy class. Can you please recommend some >=3B species in the Araceae family that I could grow for the class? >=3B >=3B Requirements: 1) Tropical or subtropical=2C a year round greenhouse grower. >=3B 2) Can be kept to about a 6 inch pot size or smaller and be a blooming size >=3B plant. 3) Ideally the plant would bloom fairly often or could be convinced >=3B to bloom around the second half of September in a greenhouse in the USA=2C >=3B West Virginia. 4) flower structure=2C fairly typical spathe and spadix. >=3B >=3B I have lurked on this list a while so I am somewhat familiar with the >=3B family. I can supply dry and or cool resting periods or extra heat and or >=3B light to encourage the plant at the needed time of the year. I would prefer >=3B a true species but an example is much better than no example. Between this >=3B greenhouse and another on campus we have several examples of species in the >=3B family but they are mostly philodendrons and Dieffenbachia that either don't >=3B bloom very often or only bloom when they are larger plants than we are >=3B usually able to accommodate. >=3B >=3B If you suggest something out of the ordinary=2C which I personally would >=3B prefer=2C please include some hints on where to obtain plants. >=3B Feel free to reply publicly or privately. >=3B >=3B Thanks for any help on this. >=3B >=3B Carol McCarthy >=3B >=3B carol.mccarthy@mail.wvu.edu >=3B West Virginia University - Dept. of Biology >=3B Greenhouse Manager >=3B >=3B _______________________________________________ >=3B Aroid-L mailing list >=3B Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com >=3B http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l >=3B >=3B _______________________________________________ >=3B Aroid-L mailing list >=3B Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com >=3B http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --_c9d6873c-cbf1-4b99-8e57-60d78159ac11_----===============3237213621503043449==

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