Philodendron selloum - cultivated origin

From: "Petra Schmidt" petra at plantdelights.com> on 2001.12.13 at 15:45:32(7903) Thanks for the info...what I'm really looking for is WHO or WHERE did the cultivated plants originate? Who was the first to introduce it to the mass market? Julius' comment about the variations is on target and I'll look into that...I'm curious about stock plants of this philodendron, where? who? which? how long ago? It's an odd thing, working in the commercial end of plants...trying to find the original source of a plant available on the market, determining if that name actually is the plant being offered under that name, and then verifying the plant we receive is, again, the name and the plant of what we wanted. It continually amazes me that plants can be introduced to the mass market without nomenclatural verification and/or plant identification verification. Of course there are companies that do make attempts and of course there are companies that just don't care or don't have the time or money to do that, but I think most companies just assume someone else has done that work. By the way, Philodendron bipinnatifidum (selloum) is growing outside in Zone 7b... Petra +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:04 PM Subject: Re: Philodendron selloum > Russ, Petra's pretty knowledgable on this stuff. The following is > paraphrased from Aroids by Deni Bown: > > some confusion has existed in the past over P. selloum and P. > bipinnatifidum....Engler considered them seperate species. the two names > have in the past been used to differentiate two different populations > (Gottsberger and Amaral 1984) and In 1991 Mayo joined the two into one > single species ....P. bippinatifidum is the true name....P. selloum has been > reduced into synonomy. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Clarence Hammer > To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L > Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:05 PM > Subject: Re: Philodendron selloum > > > > Ref Petra's comments. P. selloum is now bipinnatifidum? I'm not aware of > >this, all my information indicates they have been and are 2 distinct > >species. Anyone? > > > >I doubt if selloum could survive 7B or further north without extraordinary > >measures. Perhaps massive mulching of the root zone, some of the cold > >protective 'fleeces' and other materials could save a portion of the bottom > >of the plant to come back the following year. All bets would be off with > >exceptionally severe winters. > > > >Russ. > > > >

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