Found the Giant Belolonchium in the Wild!

From: "Elizabeth Campbell" <desinadora at mail2designer.com> on 2009.08.07 at 13:43:10(19657) Hi folks! A while back you may recall that we were discussing a giant-leaf Anthurium from Sec. Belolonchum from the Quito Botanical Gardens, which Dr. Croat identified as a new species. I was told to go out and find it in the wild. Well, after nearly a year of searching pretty much all of Ecuador, it was right under my nose on the other side of Rucu Pichincha! I've found seriously giant plants, about 15' tall with the trunks, growing on the margins of the Rio Nambillo. This plant produced leaves nearly 7' long by my estimate, and had a number of immature inflorescences on it. I was visiting friends and since I didn't expect anything exciting I didn't have my camera with me - so no new photos of the plants as yet. I'm returning to take a type specimen later this year, when some of the inflorescences will be ripe - this way I can also collect seed. My previous photos of this giant NOID are at http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Unknown%20Anthurium/ Woohoo! Beth HTML +More _______________________________________________________________ Get the Free email that has everyone talking at http://www.mail2world.com Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More!------=_NextPart_000_0EB2_01CA172A.547772A0----==============ˆ49411795868207845=

From: Susan B <honeybunny442 at yahoo.com> on 2009.08.08 at 11:36:37(19663) Whoo hoo is right! Congratulations! --0-684868719-1249731397=:65344 _______________________________________________ HTML +More Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --==============‚23921705178716475==--

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at ExoticRainforest.com> on 2009.08.08 at 12:26:08(19664) Beth, since you and I have traded alot of mail about this beautiful plant over the last year I am veryexcited you found it! Congrats!!! Please post all the photos you can once you get them! And for any thatdidn't click on Beth's link do so! The inflorescence and blades arewildly beautiful! http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Unknown%20Anthurium/ Steve Lucas HTML +More www.ExoticRainforest.com Elizabeth Campbell wrote: Hi folks! A while back you may recall that we werediscussing a giant-leaf Anthurium from Sec. Belolonchum from the QuitoBotanical Gardens, which Dr. Croat identified as a new species. I wastold to go out and find it in the wild. Well, after nearly a year ofsearching pretty much all of Ecuador, it was right under my nose on theother side of Rucu Pichincha! I've found seriously giant plants, about15' tall with the trunks, growing on the margins of the Rio Nambillo.This plant produced leaves nearly 7' long by my estimate, and had anumber of immature inflorescences on it. I was visiting friends andsince I didn't expect anything exciting I didn't have my camera with me- so no new photos of the plants as yet. I'm returning to take a typespecimen later this year, when some of the inflorescences will be ripe- this way I can also collect seed. My previous photos of this giant NOID are at http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Unknown%20Anthurium/ Woohoo! Beth --------------070609040803000607020801

From: "Marek Argent" <abri1973 at wp.pl> on 2009.08.08 at 20:17:47(19666) Hello, In the ID Center, there are photos of almost identical plant. Its owner needs confirmation if it is A. giganteum. http://www.wschowa.com/abrimaal/araceum/unid/anthskip.htm Marek HTML +More ----- Original Message ----- From: Elizabeth Campbell To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 3:43 PM Subject: [Aroid-l] Found the Giant Belolonchium in the Wild! Hi folks! A while back you may recall that we were discussing a giant-leaf Anthurium from Sec. Belolonchum from the Quito Botanical Gardens, which Dr. Croat identified as a new species. I was told to go out and find it in the wild. Well, after nearly a year of searching pretty much all of Ecuador, it was right under my nose on the other side of Rucu Pichincha! I've found seriously giant plants, about 15' tall with the trunks, growing on the margins of the Rio Nambillo. This plant produced leaves nearly 7' long by my estimate, and had a number of immature inflorescences on it. I was visiting friends and since I didn't expect anything exciting I didn't have my camera with me - so no new photos of the plants as yet. I'm returning to take a type specimen later this year, when some of the inflorescences will be ripe - this way I can also collect seed. My previous photos of this giant NOID are at http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Unknown%20Anthurium/ Woohoo! Beth _______________________________________________________________ Get the Free email that has everyone talking at http://www.mail2world.com Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More! _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l Nie znaleziono wirusa w tej wiadomosci przychodzacej. Sprawdzone przez AVG - www.avg.com Wersja: 8.5.375 / Baza danych wirusów: 270.13.47/2289 - Data wydania: 08/07/09 18:37:00 ------=_NextPart_000_00F3_01CA1876.0F2FD140----==============‘09641405656029566=

From: <ju-bo at msn.com> on 2009.08.09 at 16:37:43(19669) Dear Elizabeth, Congrats! HTML +More I`m certain that the next time Tom visits Ecuador this one might be on his agenda to see and collect specimens of!  Anything you can do to move this along for him, like the collection of sexual material dried in Quito, photos, etc. I`m certain he will be appreciative of, as it may not be in a fertile state when he visits. Before I forget, I wish to thank you for that wonderful snippet of information you passed on to me some time ago about your Shuara friends collecting, transporting and cultivating Caladium steudnerifolium from nature to their home veggie plot, also that they believe in it as a love charm, which parallels the paper I have sent you copies of from 1917, on the Benas (charms) of the Amerindians of Br. Guiana. I look forward to hearing what info. you can glean from your friends on the new species of Caladium from E. Ecuador (Aroideana 2009, in press) in their wonderful lives. Of course my ultimate goal for whan I pass on would be for SOMEONE to pick up the ball, as it were, and continue the studies on the Ethnobotanical importance of aroids in the lives of Amerindians, a task started by Richard Evans Schultes, Tim Plowman and others. Sincerely, Julius From: desinadora@mail2designer.com To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 06:43:10 -0700 Subject: [Aroid-l] Found the Giant Belolonchium in the Wild! Hi folks! A while back you may recall that we were discussing a giant-leaf Anthurium from Sec. Belolonchum from the Quito Botanical Gardens, which Dr. Croat identified as a new species. I was told to go out and find it in the wild. Well, after nearly a year of searching pretty much all of Ecuador, it was right under my nose on the other side of Rucu Pichincha! I've found seriously giant plants, about 15' tall with the trunks, growing on the margins of the Rio Nambillo. This plant produced leaves nearly 7' long by my estimate, and had a number of immature inflorescences on it. I was visiting friends and since I didn't expect anything exciting I didn't have my camera with me - so no new photos of the plants as yet. I'm returning to take a type specimen later this year, when some of the inflorescences will be ripe - this way I can also collect seed. My previous photos of this giant NOID are at http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Unknown%20Anthurium/ Woohoo! Beth_______________________________________________________________ Get the Free email that has everyone talking at http://www.mail2world.com Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More! --_3a7abd6a-ff8b-49e5-853e-480107c0b29b_----==============Q15433892466083717=

From: "Elizabeth Campbell" <desinadora at mail2designer.com> on 2009.08.10 at 17:19:23(19684) Marek - I don't think it's the same plant - the inflorescences on mine are borne on really long petioles and with striped spathes, and on that one they appear to be coming directly out of the stem and have plain spathes. Equally, the leaf is not as ornate and the venation is less distinct on that plant than on my big NOIDs. The cataphylls are somehow different as well. Tom's knee-jerk reaction to the first photos I sent him was actually A. giganteum, but then once I got the second round of photographs it didn't key out, and he confirmed it as a NOID when he was down here last year. Beth HTML +More _______________________________________________________________ Get the Free email that has everyone talking at http://www.mail2world.com Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More!------=_NextPart_000_3677_01CA19A4.08186D70----==============‰70183587336903162=

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