From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at msn.com> on 2006.01.15 at 11:17:41(13703)
Reply-To : Discussion of aroids
Sent : Saturday, January 14, 2006 10:59 PM
To : "Discussion of aroids"
Subject : Re: [Aroid-l] Colletogyne vs. climbers.
Having been born and raised in tropical jungles, I too can appreciate your
experiences, as I too have climbed MANY a jungle giant, through wasps, ants
and sometimes scorpions hidden in spiny clumps of Bromeliads, when after an
aroid or an orchid in daylight, and have gone after several tree-boas up in
the canopy at night too! Ah, the follies of youth! (and way too late into
adulthood!). Also, you have not LIVED until you have tried unsucessfully
to extricate the rhizome of an Anaphyllopsis or Urospatha sp., deeply buried
2 ft. or more in putrid, black swamp mud, intertwined in the wire-like roots
of a tropical mangrove. Swarming stinging-ants, mosquitos, black stinging
flies, sweat bees and those small, flesh-eating wasps that alight on ones
face, or enter ones pants legs (and try to remove small bits of flesh from
the tip of intimate areas), and then sting when swatted at, are best ignored
under these conditions! Now THAT is having FUN!!!
On a more serious note, has any progress been made into solving the
sincronized/simultanous and seemingly world-wide blooming of the var. form
of Epipremnum, seemingly much like that which occurs in some species of
Bamboo?? Has it bloomed since the last recorded mass blooming, which I
believe wasi back in the 60`s??? There is an actual report/article
recording this mass blooming in an early Aroideana!
The Very Best,
Julius
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Yeah, yeah, I AGREE but Julius, you simply cannot believe the fun of, in
the rain, spotting an aroid climber blossoming at the top of a large tree,
climbing said tree (which naturally has several large nests of aggressive
stinging ants (you know the kind, they clamp on with their huge mandibles
to gain better purchase to sting)) and just as you reach the base of the
pertinent branch all the movement you've set up sends the spathe falling
past; you make a grab for it, in so doing you catch your foot in the
climbing stems, in the process ripping of the (naturally solitary)
inflorescence which also falls but instead of reaching the ground lodges
in the branches of an adjacent (fiercely thorny) tree in which hangs a
large hornet nest, the force of the inflorescence striking the tree
agitates the hornets which then attack...
Ah! How can I not LOVE climbers
May I echo you Wilbert & everyone elses contributions to the IAS page
Pete
----- Original Message ----- From: "Julius Boos"
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 4:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Colletogyne vs. climbers.
From : Peter Boyce
Reply-To : Discussion of aroids
Sent : Friday, January 13, 2006 7:37 AM
To : "Discussion of aroids"
Subject : Re: [Aroid-l] Colletogyne on IAS website
Dear Peter, Wilbert and Friends--
Hey Pete---I agree! Imagine this little short-shift, unifoliate little
dwarf of an aroid, exquisitly beautiful as it might be, with only its ONE
cordate leaf (no splits or fenestrations here!), having the audacity to
produce such wonderfully marked, MULTIPLE blooms, AND NOT allowing these
beautifully marked spathes to fall off soon after opening, like some other
self-respecting, TRUE climbing marvels of the Aroid-world have the decency
to do, leaving just a bare, white (but I`m certain quite attractive and
interesting, mind you!) spadix! Some of these climbers may bloom just about
once every twenty to forty years or so, but I`m certain that to experience
the pleasure of seeing such a plain white spathe or bare spadix is well
worth the wait!! :--)> (all in fun, guys!)
Hey, congrats again to all, and good growing!
Julius
Hrumph! While I admit that Colletogyne is rather nice I my heart still
flutters most when presented with a colossal Epipremnum or Rhaphidophora...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid"
To: "Aroid-l"
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 4:14 AM
Subject: [Aroid-l] Colletogyne on IAS website
Hi Folks,
For all you lovers of the REALLY exquisite (and that only to be found among
tuberous aroids) Albert and I have prepared a page on Colletogyne, a small
gem. Just been rediscovered.
have fun at: http://www.aroid.org/genera/colletogyne/
Cheerio,
Wilbert
p.s. all you lovers of climbing aroids, THIS is the moment to switch to the
REAL thing and we won't hold it against you....but it IS the LAST
chance!!!!!!!!!
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