Re: Intergeneric hybrids

From: plantnut at shadow.net (Dewey Fisk) on 1997.04.11 at 01:08:54(603) >Dear All, > >While visiting Sweden last year I went to the Bergianska Tradgarden, a small >but beautiful botanic garden outside Stockholm, with tropical greenhouses >showing a number of well-grown aroids. On one of the benches was a plant >labelled as a hybrid between Spathiphyllum (I think wallisi) and a >Dieffenbachia! The plant was about 18 inches tall and the leaves certainly >looked like an intermediate between the thin, lanceolate leaves of >Spathiphyllum and the thicker, more oval leaves of Dieffenbachia. The Flower >looked like a rather short-stemmed version of the typical Spathiphyllum >flower. +More Geoffrey, The plant that you saw was most probably "Homalomena wallisi". It is a beautiful plant and fits the general description above... >Does such a hybrid seem likely/possible? Does anyone know of any other such >intergenerics? Perhaps we should be thinking about more such original >crosses; certainly the plant was very attractive and presumably could get >quite large if it took after the Dieffenbachia parent. > >Any thoughts and or knowledge on this topic from other members awaited with >interest. To the best of my knowledge... and this is what I have been told, there are no intergeneric hybrids in Araceae. Dewey Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE

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