Re: 'Self-heading' Philodendrons.

From: "Eduardo Goncalves" edggon at hotmail.com> on 2001.09.06 at 05:07:30(7364) Dear friends, Just to let you know, Burle-Marx?s plants of P. leal-costae may be lost, since I could not find it in his collection (among the extant 250 or even more species of Philos that still survive there). I will check the other Brazilian gardens I distributed the plants I collected in March, in order to know if their plants are still alive. What about put it in the tank of a monster Vriesea-like bromeliad, just like it occurs in the wild? I couldn?t try this method because I do not have room for something like this in my collection. In near future, maybe I will grow a big tank bromeliad, with plenty of Anthurium bromelicola, A. mourae and Philodendron leal-costae, all of them known to grow in places like this! (together with some frogs, snakes and mosquitoes, that are also found in those tanks) +More Very best wishes, Eduardo. >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 > > >>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. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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