Anchomanes seeds available

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2001.11.17 at 05:43:01(7824) Peoples, We have succeeded in Leiden in pollinating two inflorescences of Anchomanes dalzielii. +More Anchomanes WHO???? This is a species from western Africa, with a thick creeping rhizome, a bright green spathe, large stigmas that are almost sessile on the centre of the ovary and with red fruits. This can all be seen on a few scans that I have asked Scott Hyndman to put on the IAS website. When that has been done, I hope Scott will inform this list, so you can have a peek. The leaflets of A. dalzielii are also very broad. The differences with forms of An. difformis (which goes in collections still under all kind of false names like An. hookeri, An, giganteum etc.) are that An. difformis has the spathe dark maroon or pink or colours in-between, stigmas small, placed in the lower part of the ovary-tip, fruits purple. In the literature An. dalzielii has often been misidentified as An. welwitschii but that name in fact stands for a form of An. difformis, that was once also known as An. difformis var. welwitschii, which in my opinion is the correct classification/name. In An. difformis var. welwitschii one can see the typical excentrically placed stigma, typical of An. difformis. The main difference is that in var. welwitschii the stigma is almost sessile (not much of a style present). Our clones in Leiden of var. welwitschii also have pink spathes. As in typical difformis the berries of var. welwitschii are purple. I do seem to remember I wrote a few lines on these Anchomanes name-confusions a long while back but I guess you can find that in the archives. If you are interested in seed(s), please send your request to my email adress and DON'T USE THE REPLY KEY WITH THIS MESSAGE. Mail to hetter@worldonline.nl and please, DO INCLUDE THE ADDRESS WE CAN SEND THE SEEDS TO EVEN WHEN YOU THINK I ALREADY HAVE IT. Depending on the number of request you either get a lot, or less, or a lot less or zilch........... But I guess we have enough for quite some requests. Cheerio, Lord Anchophallus

From: Scott Hyndman hyndman at aroid.org> on 2001.11.17 at 20:45:11(7825) Dear All, Per Wilbert's earlier note about the Anchomanes dalzielii, you can find his beautiful images at http://www.aroid.org/genera/anchomanes/index.html. Best regards, Scott +More --------------------- Mr. Scott Hyndman International Aroid Society Web Site Vero Beach, Florida, USA USDA Hardiness Zone 10a E-mail: hyndman@aroid.org on 11/17/01 12:42 AM, Wilbert Hetterscheid at hetter@worldonline.nl wrote: > Peoples, > > We have succeeded in Leiden in pollinating two inflorescences of Anchomanes > dalzielii. > > Anchomanes WHO???? This is a species from western Africa, with a thick > creeping rhizome, a bright green spathe, large stigmas that are almost > sessile on the centre of the ovary and with red fruits. This can all be seen > on a few scans that I have asked Scott Hyndman to put on the IAS website. > When that has been done, I hope Scott will inform this list, so you can have > a peek. > > The leaflets of A. dalzielii are also very broad. The differences with forms > of An. difformis (which goes in collections still under all kind of false > names like An. hookeri, An, giganteum etc.) are that An. difformis has the > spathe dark maroon or pink or colours in-between, stigmas small, placed in > the lower part of the ovary-tip, fruits purple. > > In the literature An. dalzielii has often been misidentified as An. > welwitschii but that name in fact stands for a form of An. difformis, that > was once also known as An. difformis var. welwitschii, which in my opinion > is the correct classification/name. In An. difformis var. welwitschii one > can see the typical excentrically placed stigma, typical of An. difformis. > The main difference is that in var. welwitschii the stigma is almost sessile > (not much of a style present). Our clones in Leiden of var. welwitschii also > have pink spathes. As in typical difformis the berries of var. welwitschii > are purple. > > I do seem to remember I wrote a few lines on these Anchomanes > name-confusions a long while back but I guess you can find that in the > archives. > > If you are interested in seed(s), please send your request to my email > adress and > DON'T USE THE REPLY KEY WITH THIS MESSAGE. Mail to hetter@worldonline.nl and > please, DO INCLUDE THE ADDRESS WE CAN SEND THE SEEDS TO EVEN WHEN YOU THINK > I ALREADY HAVE IT. Depending on the number of request you either get a lot, > or less, or a lot less or zilch........... But I guess we have enough for > quite some requests. > > Cheerio, > Lord Anchophallus > >

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