Re: [aroid-l] Rapateaceae

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at msn.com> on 2003.02.02 at 15:42:46(9917) Hi Tsuh Yang, During our trip to Fr. Guyana a couple years ago, we saw and collected what we understood to be the two known species in this genus, they both grew like an aquatic in shallow pools of swampy water, both had very delicate yellow blooms, and there should be some phoros around of both. One was particularly attractive, it grew in a fan-like shape much like a minature traveller`s 'palm' with mottled petioles, the other was clump-like and could have been misidentified as a grass or narrow-leaf Bromeliad sp.. To the best on my knowledge they did not survive cultivation. Julius Boos +More WPB, Florida. >>hello, does anyone know if any Rapateaceae are in cultivation? -- tsuh yang

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