Re: Thai Beauty Caladium

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at msn.com> on 2002.03.26 at 16:05:36(8367) In a message dated Mon, 25 Mar 2002 1:04:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Plantsman" writes: Since it is said to have been developed in Thailand, I doubt we shall ever +More know it`s exact parentage. It does contain mainly Caladium schomburgkii genes, a species which is found in the wild (see photos of several 'forms' of this on Paul Resslar`s web page linked to the Mobot aroid site) The species has tear-drop shaped leaves with no sinus. Dewey Fsik has a VERY strong form of this collected in the wild in Venezuela by Ralph, our eldest IAS member!! He also has several other wild collected species Caladiums which are my passion. I highly recomend them to everyone. 'Thai Beauty' could be confused with 'Pink Fantasy' which was produced and is grown in Lake Placid, Florida. 'Thai Beauty' may have more 'crossing' bars. Julius Julius> I received an email today from TropicalGardening.com about a new > caladium variety called "Thai Beauty". I've never seen anything > that looked like this before When I saw the picture, my immediate impression was of a 'Candidum' with pink added. Is 'Candidum' one of its parents? Jason Hernandez Naturalist-at-Large

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