Re: A. wentii, and pothos blooms

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.04.18 at 22:28:10(4394) Dear Eric, See my letter to the list in answer to Pete`s, and yes, they seem to require lots of light, sun, TIME, and space to grow to adults and then to bloom. Sounds like in your situation they do not get these 'needs', a smaller leaf may be the plant wanting to go into the 'runner' stage where it produces these runners with small, cordate leaves which 'search' for a suitable tree to climb! This is the stage in which they are sold in dept. stores! According to Aroideana Vol. 7, A. wentii may be from N. Guinea, and the almost peltate leaves are 18-20" long by 9-10" wide, bronze-green with lighter midrib and veins. It is speculated that the plant sold as A. 'wentii' may be a hybrid involving A. cuprea. That`s all that I could glean from the article, maybe someone else will tell you how to best grow it. Cheers, Julius +More ju-bo@msn.com > Wow, wish I could see that! You must be right, but I do have one that has leaves about two foot. I have never been able to figure out how to get them to grow bigger. Since I use them for filler and to add a tropical look to my porch they are in shade so there leaves stay the same size or each one is smaller than the last. They must like a good bit of light maybe even some direct sun? So anyone know any thing about my other question on Alocasia wentii? What size will it get and what growing conditions does it like. Thanks y'all. Eric< At 08:33 PM 4/16/00 -0500, you wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: toeric >To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L >Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 6:20 PM >Subject: A. wentii, and pothos blooms > > > > >Dear Eric, > >Your 'pothos' is a baby! Here in Florida it often 'escapes', and will grow >up huge pine trees, rapidly transforming itself from the piddling little >vine to a HUGE, monsterous climber, climbing to over 30 ft high, covering >the trunk with it`s beautiful leaves, its stem up to 3" in dia., its leaves >3ft x 20 "!!! At this stage they do bloom, I was present at the late and >great Monroe Birdsey`s home in Miami and asssisted Peter Boyce of Key >Gardens in collecting a bloom from a HUGE one growing up the trunk of a huge >tree! > >Cheers, > >Julius

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