Re: Anthurium superbum

From: Denis denis at skg.com> on 2000.11.16 at 22:02:42(5687) Dear Paul; Anthurium Superbum can produce fertile seed if hand pollinated or pollinated by insects. It can also out-cross easily to other Pachyneurium Section species of Anthurium, that's something you probably don't want. The infructescense will produce purple berries which will pop out on the spadix when ripe. Usually the first to pop are the ones containing fertile seed and then later the ones that contain chaff and not seed. some of the latter never pop out. You should remove the pulp from the seed by squeezing the berries one by one, wiping off the sticky pulp with a damp paper towel and planting into a tray or community pot immediately. Keep in Humid environment. They should germinate within a week or two. Seeds are small and seedlings grow slowly for first year. Good luck. Denis at Silver Krome Gardens Homestead Florida +More Dyeingduk@aol.com wrote: > > I have a plant of this that pu tout for the first ime what seems like fertile > fruit. It has done this before but the inflorescence(using orchid terms) died > before fruit was produced. I planted much f the berries but after a month > nothing has happened. I was windering if there is something i would not know > about getting them to germinate. Thanks for any help. > Paul Marcellini

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