Re: Philodendron 'Tahiti'

From: Denis denis at skg.com> on 2001.05.01 at 14:29:22(6339) If you look at Twyford Plant Laboratories web page you will find Philodendron 'Tahiti Green' there on the price list... Alas, there is no picture there to look at or refer to. that part of the site was still under construction. You might try asking Twyford, but it is my experience that labs seldon know where a plant came from unless they had to go through the patenting process which requires it. Sometimes even then they don't want to tell outsiders from whence species plants come. The labs care not for taxonomy, when someone brings them a plant, if they can TC it and it sells and grows well, they are only concerned about protecting their proprietary product by putting a catchy name on it and Trademarking the name. Good luck. Denis at Silver Krome Gardens, Inc. +More Dr. Tom Croat wrote: > > Dear Dan & Bob: > > I have not seen this but I will put your inquiry as well as my own > comments out on Aroid-L. This plant was no doubt produced in > Florida, probably by Oglesby or Agristarts or possibly > Weyerhauser. The problem is that these that most of these things > are either sports or some secret elaborate parentage that they > would probably want to keep secret. Denis Rotolante grows a lot of > such things and he might be familiar with it. From what you said > about the possible parentage it sounds like a wild hybrid that has > been cloned. > > More later. > > Tom > > On 27 Apr 01, at 15:00, Dan Nicolson wrote: > > Date sent: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:00:23 -0400 > From: "Dan Nicolson" > Copies to: "Robert DeFilipps" > Subject: Re: Philodendron 'Tahiti' > > Not sure how to do this. Try the International Aroid > Society: www.aroid.org. > They have something called Aroid-L where one can ask a > question like this and, maybe, get an answer. Alternatively > e-mail Tom Croat > Dan > > >>> Robert DeFilipps - 27/04/2001 1:25 PM >>> > 27 April 2001 > Dear Dan: > I recently purchased 3 hanging baskets of a vigorous > non-self-heading vine called Philodendron 'Tahiti' from a > Washington plant shop. Do you know of some way I could find > out the parental species of this plant, such as a registry > or directory of philodendrons? I believe it is quite > recently introduced in the plant trade. Purple petioles, no > sterigmata, leaves deeply lobed like a combination of > pinnatifida and mule-faced philodendron. Thanks very much > indeed. Bob.

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