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  [Aroid-l] Found the Giant Belolonchium in the Wild!
From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at ExoticRainforest.com> on 2009.08.08 at 12:26:08
Beth, since you and I have traded alot of mail about this beautiful plant over the last year I am veryexcited you found it!  Congrats!!!

Please post all the photos you can once you get them!  And for any thatdidn't click on Beth's link do so!  The inflorescence and blades arewildly beautiful!

http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Unknown%20Anthurium/



Steve Lucas
www.ExoticRainforest.com




Elizabeth Campbell wrote:
Hi folks! A while back you may recall that we werediscussing a giant-leaf Anthurium from Sec. Belolonchum from the QuitoBotanical Gardens, which Dr. Croat identified as a new species. I wastold to go out and find it in the wild. Well, after nearly a year ofsearching pretty much all of Ecuador, it was right under my nose on theother side of Rucu Pichincha! I've found seriously giant plants, about15' tall with the trunks, growing on the margins of the Rio Nambillo.This plant produced leaves nearly 7' long by my estimate, and had anumber of immature inflorescences on it. I was visiting friends andsince I didn't expect anything exciting I didn't have my camera with me- so no new photos of the plants as yet. I'm returning to take a typespecimen later this year, when some of the inflorescences will be ripe- this way I can also collect seed.

My previous photos of this giant NOID are at
http://s256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Unknown%20Anthurium/

Woohoo!

Beth
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