Re: [Aroid-l] Zantedeschia

From: Theodore Held <oppenhauser2001 at gmail.com> on 2011.02.09 at 18:52:50(21912) Susan, My guess is that this is one of your colored smaller varieties rather than aethiopica. This is based solely on the existing size, which is about one American foot high and one wide. My friend received it as a gift and it's just a commercial variety of some sort, probably purchased through a florist. What special considerations might there be if I'm not dealing with an aethiopica? Ted. +More On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Susan B wrote: > Zantedeschia aethiopica 'Crowborough' is a UK variety. I seem to remem ber a > story about it as well, but all I have in my notes is: > "Widely grown, this selection has wider flowers and is hardier than the > type". You might try googling Arum aethiopica Crowborough, as it is of ten > called in the UK. The only nursery I have listed as selling it- Duchy of > Cornwall Nursery- no longer has it on their website. > > I keep a list of all the Zantedeschia varieties I have heard of, kind of > like those Amorphophiles who want one of each. However, the list quick ly > outgrew my hopes- there are over 500 now. I had hoped to start a datab ase > with information on all those varieties, but I don't think my computer > skills will handle that! There is another person I know of that also h as a > list, I can't remember his name right now, he is mostly concerned with > Arisaema, though. > > I also have a bit of a pet peeve about Zantedeschia aethiopica. I'm ju st a > hobbyist gardener who has a passion for Zantedeschia (so please don't > criticize or berate me for my incorrect use of the words hybrid or > cultivar), but I simply don't believe that there are so many different > varieties. I have a list of 57 different Aethiopicas, from Crowborough to > Hercules, Lisa, Moondancer, Snowbaby, the list goes on and on. My opin ion > (although I'm likely to be wrong) is that growing conditions (soil, water, > nutrients, sun) account for many of these different cultivars. > > We've all seen the photos of huge blooms and tall plants at Strybling > Arboretum of aethiopica "Hercules". Oddly enough there is only a handf ul of > other photos of it on the internet- and none of them come anywhere near t hat > size. Nurseries and ebay sellers have made a fortune selling, it thoug h! > > I used to have Crowbrough, but it was never a good grower for me (although > my plants have to either be grown in pots or dug in the fall- so not good > growing conditions). > Susan > > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > > _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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