Re: Help with ID

From: Tom Croat <croat at mobot.org> on 1998.03.13 at 17:07:04(1956) Don: My guess is that it is Anthurium schlechtendalii var. jimenezii but I would be glad to look at your photos to be sure. Certainly it must be a member of sect. Pachyneurium and there are only 2-3 in that region. Tom +More > > Dear Aroiders... > While in Puerto Vallarta, I came across a large potted aroid (in > fruit/flower) at the Paradisus Hotel. I haven't gotten my pictures back > yet, but in the meantime, the plant was perhaps somewhat less than 3 ft > high and 3 ft wide. The leaves were many, about 2 ft long, 6 inches wide > and very short petioled, giving the plant the appearance of a large birds > nest fern, but with heavier and darker green leaves. Any suggestions for > me to cogitate upon until my pictures come back? > > Don Martinson > Medical College of Wisconsin > Milwaukee, Wisconsin > dmartin@post.its.mcw.edu > > > > -- Thomas B. Croat, Ph.D. P.A. Schulz Curator of Botany Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 phone: 314-577-5163; fax 314-577-9596; email croat@mobot.org

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