Re: [Aroid-l] is it an Anubias?

From: Ferenc Lengyel <feri.lengyel at gmail.com> on 2011.06.11 at 07:34:25 Thank you Peter! I am very sad to hear, that this compact growth is the result of hormonal treatments and tissue culture.=A0I am desperately seeking tropical aroids in Europe which are natural species (not cultivars or=A0man-made hybrids), but here in Hungary I can hardly get any. I know that tissue cultures can be established from species plants as well as cultivars, but I think that most of the plants produced this way are clones of selected cultivars or hybrids. I decided to buy aquatic aroids as plants from the genera Cryptocoryne and Anubias are available here for aquarists, and I hoped that some of them are species plants. I bought the plant from a local (Hungarian) aquatic plant nursery (they write on their website that the parents of the Anubias plants they offer are from West African import, so I thought, they are not cultivars). But now it dosn't seem to be the case. I bought=A0nine "Anubias" plants from them (this was one of them). The other=A0eight are really Anubias plants, but not the ones described by the seller. I think that=A0the eight plants=A0belong to=A0not more than 4 species and varieties. The seller tried to send nine different looking plants, but definitely had no idea about their=A0proper identity.=A0It would not be a problem at all, if the plants were not cultivars.=A0I will transplant all the plants, place them in my paludarium, and try to identify them=A0after the hormones clear from them, they grow to their real form and develop normal inflorescences. Anyway, I would be very happy to have a Schismatoglottis, if it=A0was a pure species. =A0 Ferenc --20cf303f63e8321e3c04a56ab703-- --===============9127853246380566287==

Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.