IAS on Facebook
IAS on Instagram
|
![](/images/navbartop.jpg)
IAS Aroid Quasi Forum
About Aroid-L
This is a continuously updated archive of the Aroid-L mailing list in a forum format - not an actual Forum. If you want to post, you will still need to register for the Aroid-L mailing list and send your postings by e-mail for moderation in the normal way.
Natural hybrid???
|
From: "Julius Boos" <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2007.03.30 at 05:17:57(15522)
Reply-To : Discussion of aroids
Sent : Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:43 PM
To : "Discussion of aroids"
Subject : [Aroid-l] Fw: Natural hybrid
Dear Windy,
The attached photos are fine this time, thanks.
I`ll need opinions from others on this, but I believe that the plant you may
think is Colocasia gigantia may in fact be a species of the Neotropical
genus Xanthosoma, NOT a Colocasia sp.
Also, what you think might be a hybrid may in fact be a seedling of your
Alocasia cuculata. My reasoning is that this species is well known for its
MANY leaf variations that sometimes occur spontaniously, so this may just be
a plant that grew from seed dropped by your parent plants, or even an
off-shoot which has mutated producing leaves of a slightly different shape
and texture. The count of veins of the anterior lobe of the leaf blade ( 4
per side), in fact all the veins of the suspected hybrid, closely match
your A. cuculata, just the shape is different.
The anterior lobes of the leaves in your photo of what I believe to be a
species of Xanthosoma have 10+ plus veins per side.
Have you seen blooms of the smaller plant as yet?? An examination of the
spadix will give additional information.
Also see if the suspected Xanthosoma has blooms, as the spathes of
Xanthosoma are VERY different to Alocasia OR Colocasia.
The Best,
Julius
| +More |
Hi again,
First let me apologize for the problem with the images I included with the
information re: this different looking plant.
I have just replace my old laptop with a new one that is running Vista. To
be truthful, I am a better grower than I am using this machine.
I learned from a friend (thanks again Steve) that the images needed to be
compress and was helped me with that. So let me do this again, hopefully
with less aggravation to those of you with dial up.
The images include two of this plant in question(004 & 002), one image of
Colocasia gigantea(001), and one image of Alocasia cuculata(005). The
images, 001 and 005 are included for you to compare.
I sure hope this work this time.
Windy<<
_______________________________________________
Aroid-l mailing list
Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l
|
|
Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.
|
|