From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2002.05.24 at 15:17:26(8869)
Dear Eduardo!
Thank you! Your observations were most motivating for my further
experiments! Especially "I have never seen a truly terrestrial
Spathiphyllum in Brazil" WOW! that is REALLY something. Not even species
of Section Amomophyllum which is for me most beautiful? How about the
"velvety" S. floribundum & its close species/sub-species?
I wonder just how many aroid species can be BETTER cultured emersed, it
might make cultivation so much easier &, wit fishes, exciting?
The Best
Ron
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To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L"
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: aquatic spathiphyllum
Dear Petra and Ron,
Just to remember: Spathiphyllum gardneri (from Central Brazil) grows in
river banks and most plants are usually flooded during the rainy season. I
am not meaning a wet foot, but I am talking about completely submerged
plants (sometimes only infructescences out of the water) for a month or two.
In Amazonas state (Brazil), as well as in Venezuela, Spathiphyllum
cannifolium grows in full sunlight in swamps, together with Urospatha and
some Montrichardia. I have also collected Spathiphyllum humboldtii growing
submerged up to the middle of its petioles close to French Guiana. The same
situation in a potential new species of Spathiphyllum in Acre (I think Tom
is describing this one) that was growing in a completely swampy area. I
have never collected in Costa Rica or Colombia, but all Brazilian species of
Spathiphyllum I have seem are helophytes or rheophytes. In fact, I have
never seen a truly terrestrial Spathiphyllum in Brazil!
Best wishes,
Eduardo.
>From: "Petra Schmidt"
>Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org
>To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
>Subject: aquatic spathiphyllum
>Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:58:09 -0500 (CDT)
>
>Hey Ron...there was a craze here in the USA, well, maybe just the Midwest,
>with spathiphyllum plants being grown in huge glass jars...the kits were
>sold by Walmart and included colored marbles for the jar, a beta fish and a
>spathiphyllum...the roots of the spath grew down into the jar, kept the
>fish
>fed and happy and the plant happy...these "arrangements" were seen in
>dental
>offices, doctor's offices, bank lobbies, restaurants, and anywhere else you
>could imagine; those who had one, loved them...
>I have seen spaths offered in the water garden areas in garden
>centers/nurseries and have seen them growing pretty much as emergent
>aquatics.
>Petra
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