Fw: Rare & beautiful Caladium available

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.03.22 at 03:54:11(4250) Dear Friends, Spring is about to 'sprung', so I am waking up this project once again---to those who are interested, please send contact me and send your checks as explained in the re-post (SEE BELOW) of the original notice, and thanks to all who showed great interest in this worthwhile project. I am very pleased to report that all or most of the tubers wiintered very well in a paper bag kept at 'room temperature'. They will be dolled out on a 'first come, first served' basis, so do not tarry!! To those who ALREADY sent checks, I am depositing them today and your boxes are in the mail (Tony, Albert). Good growing, Julius +More ju-bo@msn.com > I have received a number of tubers of one of the rarer Caladium species, > Caladium picturatum C. Koch, recently collected on Trinidad, W.I. I am > offering these for sale, all money raised will go to benefit an Aroid > Research College student in another country who is in dire need of an amount > of money to complete their doctorate. Their identity will remain > confidential. The tubers are from between aprox. 1/2" to 1 1/2" in dia. > Please contact me directly at the address below for pricing (prices are > very reasonable). > > ju-bo@msn.com > > If you are interested in obtaining one or a few of these valuable tubers, > and by so doing, assisting a student in completing their education. I will > ship to Florida growers now and to others in the colder Northern Zones when > it warms up in spring. > > Photographs of this wonderful plant can be viewed either in 'Aroideana' Vol > 16, pgs. 6+7, Figs 2, 3 and 4, and also on Professor Paul Resslar`s Caladium > pages with the caption 'N. E. Trinidad'--- > > http://www.vwc.edu/library_tech/wwwpages/presslar/greenhouse/caladium/caladi > um.htm > > (note the "underscore" between 'library' and 'tech'). > > A few notes on this and other rare Caladium species-- > > This is one species that does not appear to have been used in the Caladium > breeding programs in Florida or in other countries as both C. bicolor and C. > schomburgkii have, and which have even been crossed to produce the > cultivars "Gingerland", "White wing" and others. Since the publication of > the article in Aroideana Vol. 16, I have found that these Caladiums plus C. > schomburgkii and C. humboldtii are considered 'special' (sacred?) plants by > the inhabitants of the area where they are found, and are 'traded' only > between families who know of their alleged 'powers'. These wonderful > people are not prone to giving plants to the casual visitor to the village, > and will not show a visitor these plants in the wild. > The above may be responsible for their wide distribution throughout the > Amazon region (I have seen this same Caladium from Amazonium Brazil, Br. > Guiana and Amazonium Peru in addition to Trinidad, W.I.), and in the case of > C. humboldtii, this practice may be actually responsible for it`s very > existence, as this species has never been collected or cultivated in a > fertile state, and is passed from village to village in S. America. The > following article "Indian Charms", in Tropical Wildlife in British Guiana. > Vol 1, 488-499, The New York Zoological Society, New York, gives wonderful > insights into the esteem in which this plant and other Aroids are held by > the Indians as love and hunting 'charms'." > > Julius ju-bo@msn.com

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