The cross between Anthurium veitchii and A. andreanum is known as
Anth. x "Montefontanense" and is not known to have red
foliage... I wish you good fortune in the search for the
parents...
Next time you are down this way.... I have a plant the
might fit your description... Would like you to take a look at
it....
Dewey
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Boos
To: Multiple
recipients of list AROID-L
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Anthurium sp. 'purple
leaves'.
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To: iasgb@kallus.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Letters/suggestions on the
award.
Dear Friends,
As a follow-up to me querry below concerning the
commercially sold Anthurium w/ the red-purple leaves that do not
change to green, and which I recently saw in bloom for the first time,
a friend informs me that it is called (among other names) 'Red
Beauty", and he believes it comes from an Anthurium vetchii X
Anthurium andreanum cross. Come to think of it, the
blooms with the pink spathes and short peduncles did resemble closely
the blooms I have seen on other plants that came from this cross, but
the othres had green leaves. The next chance I get I will
examine the leaf viens, as the crosses I saw had viens that one could
recognise as being from the A. vetchii parent.
Julius
>>Dear Joe, Tom and Friends,
I saw for the first time blooms on that 'commercial' var.
or sp. of Anthurium that I first saw for sale at K-Mart about 4 years
ago, the one w/ cordate leaves that never change color from purple to
green,( the color purple of some Anthurium sp. leaves when they first
emerge, but 'normally' then change to green) Do you know
the one I`m speaking about?? Well the damn thing has
BEAUTIFUL, large cupped, elongate light pink spathes! I
somehow had anticipated an insipid looking bloom perhaps like the
hybrid cultivar 'Lazarus' that I have seen, with a thin,
purplish/colorless spathe, but no, this plant is spectacular in
bloom! Any idea of its parentage or if it is a
species???
Julius
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