Re: Miss Aroid Beauty Contest

From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2002.01.31 at 03:42:02(8105) Really ! Spathiphyllum are much too graceful & demeure to allow themselves to be compared in mere Beauty with painted gaudies, Peace Lilies are "Zen", Spirit of Tao, with gentle grace, style, PURITY, subtlety, simply exquisite & of course they have scent which has often been described by sensual romantics as being like that of the most feminine of women. My Plants just do not enter Beauty Contests though I believe there may some "hooker" variegsates elsewhere who will crave notoriety. No this Competition seems to be for spectacular Aroid Royalty like Dany's Alocasia, (A. sanderiana, A. watsoniana), Franks brilliant Aglaonema, dramatic Anthurium & not forgetting Philodendron spiritu sancti & better lke P. joepiii but really their flowers are often rather crude & obvious.. I would think that to some Diptera & erotically hyper-orientated humans might regard Amoprphophallus as the most beautiful. If you want my choice for a Miss Other Aroid for Spaths I like S. Cali, sometimes called S. Mini & S. "clevelandii" as in Birdsey "Cultivated Aroids" & the humble "true" S. wallissii best. I still need these "common" forms if ANYBODY might guide me to sources? How abour ARISAEMA? Can we REALLY call it a a MISS Aroid Beauty Contest. Should it be MS Aroid for plant hermaphrodites? How about "LOVELIEST AROID CONTEST" then I could enter my REALLY best Peace Lilies? Cheerfully Ron +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 3:26 AM Subject: Re: Miss Aroid Beauty Contest In a message dated Mon, 28 Jan 2002 2:13:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, Durightmm@aol.com writes: > Who will be Miss Anthurium, Miss Philodendron and Miss General Aroid.??? Joe What? No Miss Spathiphyllum? Oops...maybe I shouldn't have said anything....

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