Black Spathed Anthurium Hybrids

From: Denis denis at skg.com> on 2001.01.25 at 13:56:36(5870) Response to Tsuh Yang Chen: To My knowledge no one has produced any usable hybrids for the horticultural industry. I have seen several times the "Black" flowered Anthurium which grows in the high altitudes in the Andes. I do not believe that it has successfully used to make any good hybrids. I did send a plant of Anthurium antioquiense (small, freely suckering strap leaf, with small white flowers used in making modern pot type flowering hybrids when crossed with A. andraeanum types) to a Phalaeanopsis grower in Chicago area so that he could hybridize it to the Black Spathed thing he got from growers in Colombia. He did get some results but I have not seen them... he did not seem to excited by them. The only black flowered one out there right now is A. watermaliense which is really a Pachyneurium (Birdnest) type and not Calomystrium. If any one knows of another black flowered Anthurium that will grow in a nursery at sea level in the tropics, I would certainly like to hear about it. +More Piabinha@aol.com wrote: > > denis et al, > > has there been a black-spathe anthurium developed? > > tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA > http://www.egroups.com/group/orchidspecies

From: Piabinha at aol.com on 2001.01.28 at 02:41:50(5889) thanks for your reply, denis. at the brooklyn BG, right now the watermaliense is in full bloom. however, i was asking specifically about a pic i saw once of an andreanum-hybrid type that had a black spathe. i couldn't tell for sure the exact color since it was a pic on the web, but i was wondering if you or anyone's heard of this variety. tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orchidspecies

From: Betsytrips at aol.com on 2001.01.28 at 03:17:14(5890) There is an anthurium out of Colombia that looks like a puckered beautiful purple black andreanum. It does not like heat for sure. At the first sign of summer around here it starts to suffer. I have seen this and grown it, and it is absolutely beautiful. If it were not so bitchy about growing it might be around. It is not low altitude like andreanum. It has to be a higher altitude thing. I have seen it have flowers ten inches from tip to connection. I actually have a baby in the greenhouse, but by the time it grows I may be ancient myself. If one is interested in getting these, I may beable to arrange such from a South American dealer. Just let me know. They will not be cheap because they are imported several times around by the time they come in. +More Dream on ...... Betsy

From: GeoffAroid at aol.com on 2001.01.28 at 04:47:59(5891) >however, i was asking specifically about a pic i saw once of an >andreanum-hybrid type that had a black spathe. i couldn't tell for sure >the +More >exact color since it was a pic on the web, but i was wondering if you or > >anyone's heard of this variety. Tsuh Yang, There is a pic of the Anthurium you mention on the website of DragonAgro.com, they say to inquire about the price. I think it comes from Colombia, at least I purchased one from a Colombian dealer at an orchid show in the UK. Not sure if it has ever been formally described and whether it is really distinct from watermaliense....perhaps Tom Croat can tell us?

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