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Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid-L Digest, Vol 118,
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From: Tom Croat <Thomas.Croat at mobot.org>
on 2014.09.29 at 22:03:14
Simon: I have a first cousin in California who has your last name. She married a guy from Orange City, Iowa, Burt Wellinga, from a big center for Dutch Reformed church here in the US. Do you know of any relatives in Iowa? Tom From: aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of S.M. Wellinga Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 3:12 PM To: aroid-l@www.gizmoworks.com Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid-L Digest, Vol 118, Issue 11 / Re: Introduction / true to species material of Anthurium scherzerianum (Tom Croat) Thank you for each of your replies. With respect to Greg's suggestion to contact Anthura about the availability of true-to-species material of Anthurium scherzerianum, I will give it a try, although I am not sure how forthcoming a commercial enterprise will be when it comes to sharing material from their botanical gene pool with a private grower like me. Both John and Tom suggested that cultivating a species like A. scherzerianum at sea level might be a problem. However, although The Netherlands is indeed much less elevated than the natural habitats this species hauls from in Costa Rica (to make matters worse, I am not even living at sea level, but actually a couple of meters below ;-)), it doesn't exactly have a tropical climate. Ours is a 'moderate maritime climate', and while we receive a bit less rain and see the sun more often, and our monthly average relative humidity is a bit higher (75-90%) and temperature extremes are a bit more pronounced (both with respect to highs and lows), conditions in The Netherlands are more or less comparable to those in the British Isles. Most of the plants I grow stem from altitudes between 1,400-2,400 m asl and some from even higher elevations, and a species like, for instance, Anthurium cabrerense - which growers in the southern states of the US have difficulty with- does well under my growing conditions. I am therefore pretty convinced that I'd also be able to keep A. scherzerianum in good health, especially so since when I was a small boy, this species used to be a fairly common houseplant - such, before it was discarded by large commercial nurseries in favour of higher yield crops like today's Anthurium hybrids. As to your suggestion, Tom, to send you pictures of the unidentified Anthurium species that I bought from Ecuagenera as Anthurium flavolineatum, I currently don't have any. It isn't a problem to produce a series next weekend, but the thing is my plant is currently not in anthesis. How useful would pictures of the plants' habit, leaves, stem etc. be to you, without being able to see what its spathe and spadix look like? I could of course send you a description of both, but since I have to do this from memory, it might be lacking in the kind of detail you probably need. Heerenveen, The Netherlands / EU
Today's Topics:
1. Re: Introduction / true to species material of Anthurium scherzerianum (Tom Croat)
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Message: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 03:47:05 +0000 From: Tom Croat <Thomas.Croat@mobot.org> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Introduction / true to species material of Anthurium scherzerianum To: 'Discussion of aroids' <aroid-l@www.gizmoworks.com> Message-ID: <442112D3D8737B41868F544B2D822F87601E01D3@MBGMail02.mobot.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"us-ascii"
Simon: Send me images of you plant that you bought from Ecuagenera and I will see if I can determine it. Most of the material from Ecuagenera, though of wild origen is often not really determined to species.
Tom Croat
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