Re: Philodendron santa leopoldina

From: "john s. smolowe" johnsmolowe at pacbell.net> on 2001.11.13 at 04:19:41(7811) Denis, I emailed Oglesby tissue culture and got the following recommendation of Venkatesh Krishnamurthy from them. Hope it's helpful. By the way, specialty nurseries like Tropiflora and Glasshouse Works perhaps might also want a few. John +More Dear Dr. Smolowe, Thank you for your interest in our tissue culture service. I view the web page and it is a very interesting Philo. As a commercial laboratory it is not cost effective or practical for us to do a few hundred plants. I can highly recommend Venky at 863-465-0184 (Lake Placid, Florida). He owns a company that does a lot of specialty products. He has done work for us, is very trust worthy and is familiar with Philo tissue culture. Regards, Gary Hennen Oglesby Plants International, Inc. garyh@oglesbytc.com Denis wrote: Dear Joe: At this time there are too many variables involved with this project to even anticipate the price. We should cross that bridge after there is actual production tissue in the bottles. To me getting viable tissue growing and multiplying in vitro is the first step and most critical problem if we can find a willing TC lab to do the work. Certainly if it can be tissue cultured they will be available to members...who else would know enough to want one besides the people who hang out on Aroid-L? Denis Durightmm@aol.com wrote: > > Denis for clarification is this discussion a board decision? If this > venture were succesful would all members be given an opportunity to > acquire one? What price would be determined and how? There are many > questions that need to be addressed. It would indeed be of benefit > to us all and certainly a step in the right direction to perpetuate > this species but it seems to me that this decision warrants more > discussion Joe

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