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1983 6(3) 74-82 Lawrence E. Garner Hybridizing alocasias for the landscape (Buy)
ABSTRACT: For many plant fanciers, the image of tropical lushness with its abundant humidity and dense exotic vegetation, is conveyed vividly by the aroids known as Alocasias. However, the widespread enjoyment of them by gardeners and plant enthusiasts has been significantly hindered by the tenderness and apparent fussiness of the more desirable species. As plant breeders, therefore, we saw a need for the development of hardier, more interesting alocasias with ability to withstand ordinary abuse as well as outdoor growing conditions, at least in southern Florida and California. The recognition of this need, along with a desire to learn more about the alocasias as a genus, were the main objectives of the work described herein.

1984 7(2) 52 L. Garner, David Prudhomme Photograph: Amorphophallus bulbifer inflorescence
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2008 31 114-119 L. Garner A new hybrid alocasias for the 21^st century (Buy)
ABSTRACT: Tropical gardening has become quite popular in recent years, and with that has come a greater demand for new and interesting tropical subjects for these gardens. The Alocasia X portora and Alocasia X calidora, first described in Aroideana Vol. 6, No. 3, have both figured prominently in many of these gardens, but since those two plants were developed, we have completed a significant amount of additional hybridizing work at Aroidia Research. Some of the new plants that have resulted from this extensive work are described and illustrated herein.

2010 33 212-214 L. Garner Alocasia zebrina and Two Allies-A Case Study
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2011 34 96-97 LariAnn Garner Notes on the Culture of Philodendron saxicola
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ABSTRACT: Philodendron saxicola is a terrestrial plant, found in habitat growing on exposed conglomerate sandstone outcrops. The plant is found natively in the state of Bahia, Brazil, and is relatively rare in habitat, while being extremely rare in cultivation. This rarity is one of the reasons why I was so interested in obtaining seeds and working out a protocol for the successful cultivation of this plant.

2011 34 98-101 LariAnn Garner Cold Damage: Chilling Injury and Freeze Injury (Buy)
ABSTRACT: After a warm and productive summer of tropical plant growing, the one event that can bring on heart palpitations is the first day when I hear on the weather report that the temperature is headed below 50 degrees F. I get nervous because tropical plants adapted to warm summer conditions are going to be in for a shock when hit with such chilly temperatures. I've actually seen more damage on some plants from the abrupt transition from warm to cold in Autumn than from cool to cold in Winter. Below I will discuss the importance of, and the difference between, chilling injury and freezing injury. What follows will be in the context of tropical plants, and more specifically, the aroids that I grow.

2013 36 129-131 LariAnn Garner Notes on Philodendron adamantinum Mart. ex Schott (Araceae)
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ABSTRACT: Members of the Philodendron subgenus Meconostigma are popular in the horticultural industry. While the most common species seen in cultivation is Philodendron bipinnatifidum Schott ex Endl. (also known in the trade as Philodendron selloum), there are many other horticulturally desirable species in this subgenus. In my hybridizing work with these plants, I’ve had the opportunity to obtain and grow some of the rarer species. Among them is Philodendron adamantinum, a plant that in appearance resembles a diminutive version of P. bipinnatifidum, but with several crucial differences.

2013 36 146-147 LariAnn Garner A New Meconostigma Philodendron Hybrid
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ABSTRACT: In the late 1980s, I was driving through Coral Gables, Florida, and spotting an unusual philodendron plant, I stopped to examine it. The plant was being grown in a front yard, as a hedge! The owner was trimming his ‘‘hedge’’ and on closer inspection I realized that this plant was a meconostigma philodendron, as it had blooms at the time. This plant showed several distinctive characteristics that aroused my interest, not the least of which was the fact that it had a natural branching and dwarf-growing habit when compared to more well-known meconostigma philodendrons. I asked the owner for some ‘‘clippings’’ and that was how I acquired what I now refer to as Philodendron ‘‘Coral Gables Dwarf’’. I am confident that it is an undescribed species that the owner might have brought back from his home country in South America, although I did not discuss the origin of the plant with him. Confirmation of this will have to await further taxonomic study of this plant.

2013 36 159-161 LariAnn Garner A Simple Solution That May Just Bring Plants to Life
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ABSTRACT: For most fanciers, growing aroids involves a pot, potting mix, water, fertilizer, the right amount of light and the right temperature. While all of these are essential elements of growing, there are often details in applying each one that can make the difference between success in growing and the rapid loss of a plant. No one would argue that a temperature that is too cold can result in the loss of a plant, but I have found that there are other, more subtle, details in many factors that can change a plant that is just barely hanging on into a thriving, happy specimen.

2015 38(0) 29-32 LariAnn Garner Alocasia wentii—Species or Enigma? (Buy)
ABSTRACT: The 19th century was a very fertile time for the development of horticultural plant varieties, and plants in the aroid family (Araceae) were not neglected in this regard. One of the most well-known plants developed in that period is Alocasia xamazonica, a cross of A. sanderiana and A. watsoniana (the name is a synonym for A. longiloba and this plant now considered a cultivar of A. longiloba, A. longiloba ‘Watsoniana’). While in modern times, hybridization has become de rigueur in the development of new varieties, in the 19th century, it was considered radical due to religious beliefs. One of the outcomes of this was the release of some new plants, produced via hybridization, using the same type of nomenclature as is used to name actual species in order to obscure the hybrid nature of these novel developments. With the foregoing information in mind, here I present a case for the hybrid nature of a plant considered currently to be a species —Alocasia wentii.

2015 38(0) 33-39 LariAnn Garner New Philodendron Hybrids Featuring P. saxicola (Buy)
ABSTRACT: In my quest to develop new, compact and ornamentally desirable Philodendron hybrids, I was anxious to own and bloom a specimen of P. saxicola. This plant is an attractive, smaller growing Philodendron in the meconostigma group, but is also difficult to grow and tends to grow rather slowly when compared to such wellknown (and grown) plants as Philodendron bipinnatifidum. A few years ago, I was able to germinate and grow my own specimen of P. saxicola (Fig. 1), and in 2013 the plant came into bloom for the first time. My objective was to see if I could develop hybrids that retained the compact and attractive characteristics of P. saxicola while adding ease of cultivation and disease resistance to the genetic mix.