Re: [Aroid-l] Philodendron seed from S. Amer.

From: "Eduardo Goncalves" edggon at hotmail.com> on 2005.02.04 at 17:39:40(12641) Dear Neil, If you have a plant with wavy or moderately lobuled leaf and veeery long intravaginal squamules, maybe you have P. undulatum. Check your plant for this possibility. They are abundant in Southern Brazil and you are probably talking about a "bad seller" from that area. Yes, most material they sell using a lot of interesting names are forms of P. bipinnatifidum (P. selloum is just a synonim). At least there are some wild collected P. bipinnatifidums, if you are interested in develop new breeds. Very best wishes, Eduardo. +More Dr. Eduardo G. Goncalves Universidade Catolica de Brasilia Curso de Ciencias Biologicas Sala M-206, QS 7, Lote 1, EPTC CEP 72030-170, Taguatinga ? DF, BRAZIL. Reply-To: Discussion of aroids To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Philodendron seed from S. Amer. Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:05:16 +1030 Dear Julius I was involved in that order from South America a few years back - in fact I have to own up to being one of the instigators. The only success I had in the end were with some seedlings of supposed P.eichleri, as the other seeds did not germinate. The only surviving plant of P.eichleri that I have does not appear to be P.selloum / bipinnatifidum as the leaves are generally only pinnate and not bipinnate, and the stem has very long intra-vaginal squamules. So I would say that my plant is not P.selloum, but whether it is P.eichleri with any certainty is another thing. Looks similar though to Graf's photo of P.eichleri in 'Tropica'. Can't say I'm all that surprised about what you have relayed - just disappointed that's all. Certainly won't be ordering any more seed from these people. probably just as well the other varieties didn't germinate - don't need any more P.selloum!!! Would like to hear from any others who participated some years ago. best regards Neil Neil Crafter Adelaide, Australia On 01/02/2005, at 7:42 PM, Julius Boos wrote: Dear All, I`d just like to enquire as to what sucess was had the folks who ordered seed of the different Philodendron seed from S. America some time ago, especially if the resulting plants turned out to be or even look like the species they were advertised to be???? The reason I ask is that one friend so very kindly sent three seedlings of what were sold to her as being P. saxicolum, these have now grown large enough to see that they are something else BESIDES P. saxicolum, probably what we would call P. 'selloum' or one of its close relations. For legal concerns I am not using the name of the Company from which they were ordered, but I`d like to hear comments on your seedlings. Recently I had spoken w/ a member who ordered seed from this same Company MANY years ago, he told me his yard had beautiful specimens of what appeared to be a BUNCH of P. 'selloum', no other species of Philo. could be discovered amongst the plants grown from many 'advertised' species. Drop a line to the L. Good Growing, Julius _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger: instale gr?tis e converse com seus amigos. http://messenger.msn.com.br _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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