Re: 'Self-heading' Philodendrons.

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2001.09.05 at 15:24:56(7352) Dear Iza, Good thought, but I believe that Eduardo has tried this method. In the original description on the species, [Aroideana Vol. 2, No. 3, 1979] Dr. Simon Mayo mentions that this species was then being cultivated by the famous and late Roberto B-Marx in Brazil, and there is a photo of a seedling w/ about 5 cordate leaves that was being grown at Kew, so I had hoped that somewhere someone had this plant in coultvation, but it seems that I was wrong. Does anyone on this list know if Alvim Siedel in Brazil offers seed of any of the following species-- P. saxicolum, P. adamantinium or P. leal-costae?? Thanks and good growing. Sincerely, Julius +More >>I remember reading, perhaps 40 years ago, in the late, lamented Aquarium Magazine a column by the publisher William T. Innes that a Monstera deliciosa in the Temple University greenhouse in Philadelphia had grown roots into a fish tank and had suddenly taken off with larger and holier leaves than ever before. Perhaps a cutting of P. leal-costae fastened to the edge of an aquarium would succeed. Iza Goroff Whitewater Wisconsin USA Eduardo Goncalves wrote: > P. leal-costae has been proven to be hard to cultivate, even in Brazil. I > have tried and it didn?t work for me. As far as I could observe, it always > grows in Bromeliad?s tanks, so maybe they need something I couldn?t give > them (besides stanting water). I have never found it in cultivation here in > Brazil.

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