plant of your dreams?

From: "Petra Schmidt" petra at plantdelights.com> on 2003.12.10 at 21:48:15(10898) Hey Brian, sounds like the plant might be Smilax...yikes, a nightmare, indeed...try to remember to take a photo next time?! Petra ----- Original Message ----- +More To: Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:27 AM Subject: [aroid-l] Alloschemone > I have been looking for a particular plant that haunts me to this day. > Years ago I was in florida visiting collectors with my father. We > visited a Cycad guy that had a small collection of aroids. My father was > after some cycads and I talked the guy out of a few cuttings of philos > he had growing on a tree. He had collected them himself he said, but was > not sure where they came from. I was very new to aroids at the time so > was after about anything and was not exactly able to ID much with out > the help of my books. There he had a huge tree with about 5 species of > philos and other aroids on it. He told me 10.00 each for nice cuttings. > I had 40.00 bucks I got a imbe variegata and a few commons. Then lower > at the base I noticed something very very strange a small veining plant > with very cut leaves. Looked a lot like Amydrium zippelianum but shorter > leaves and much thinner segments in the leaves. The vine was so tine it > was in the cracks of the tree bark. I cannot think of anything to really > describe how odd and small the stems were. This thing was extremely > delicate looking. I would have written it off now as amydrium had I not > noticed something extremely odd about it. Along the stems were small > thorns these were fairly far apart about 1 to 3 inches. The plant at > this point was about 5ft up the tree but growing with a leaf only every > 1 to 2 ft. So when it was offered I told him I would let it grow out a > bit and get it next year when I would visit. The next year came around I > dreamed about the damn plant tried looking for it in every book and > asked a few experts what they thought it could be. I could not find any > info some said maybe not a aroid. So the following year I visit. Only to > get that plant and it had taken a bad winter and died. I questioned the > guy were it was from, Out of all the questions I think it was south > american plant. The only thing close to all the research is Alloschemone > but does anyone know if they have small thorns along the stems? If not > can anyone figure out what in the world is keeping me from my sleep LOL. > I talked to the guy and he said he had given a few cuttings to another > friend though everything seems to lead to a dead end. I don't know if > it's the plant that I really want so bad or the fact that I cannot get > it and no one seems to know anything about it. Either way was one of > those times I regret terrible. I hope to never have it happen again LOL. > THANKS >

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