Aroid-L Digest, Vol 54, Issue 20

From: "Mark McCauley" <Hort.doc at att.net> on 2009.01.12 at 14:04:27(18898) >How about a Spathiphyllum? They're easy to grow and almost always in bloom. > -----Original Message----- > From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com +More > [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] > On Behalf Of Carol McCarthy > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 11:51 AM > To: Discussion of aroids > Subject: [Aroid-l] aroid recommendations > > > > Hello Good People, > > > > I work at a university greenhouse that supports, among other things, > the teaching of a plant taxonomy class. Can you please recommend some > species in the Araceae family that I could grow for the class? > > > > Requirements: 1) Tropical or subtropical, a year round greenhouse grower. > 2) Can be kept to about a 6 inch pot size or smaller and be a blooming > size > plant. 3) Ideally the plant would bloom fairly often or could be > convinced > to bloom around the second half of September in a greenhouse in the USA, > West Virginia. 4) flower structure, fairly typical spathe and spadix. > > > > I have lurked on this list a while so I am somewhat familiar with the > family. I can supply dry and or cool resting periods or extra heat and or > light to encourage the plant at the needed time of the year. I would > prefer > a true species but an example is much better than no example. Between > this > greenhouse and another on campus we have several examples of species in > the > family but they are mostly philodendrons and Dieffenbachia that either > don't > bloom very often or only bloom when they are larger plants than we are > usually able to accommodate. > > > > If you suggest something out of the ordinary, which I personally would > prefer, please include some hints on where to obtain plants. > > Feel free to reply publicly or privately. > > > > Thanks for any help on this. > > > > Carol McCarthy > > > > carol.mccarthy@mail.wvu.edu > > West Virginia University - Dept. of Biology > > Greenhouse Manager > > > > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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