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

From: Peter Boyce <phymatarum at googlemail.com> on 2011.06.12 at 06:25:54 Hi Ferenc, =A0 The compact growth and deformed inflorescence may be the result of hormonal imbalance, but I am not saiying it is definitely. One think I am sure of is that this plant is from t/c and not from propagation via division. It is also certainly not direcrly from the wild since this species (it is cetainly a pure species and I am pretty sure it is S. roseospatha)=A0originates only=A0from a remote area of central Sarawak which is accessible only by local boat; certainly there is no one down there supplying commerciallly! =A0 Good luck with your serach! =A0 Peter On 11 June 2011 15:34, Ferenc Lengyel <feri.lengyel@gmail.com> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --0016e6469c92fd133904a57ddf13-- --===============7361469922755127729==

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