Searching for list of Paraguayan anthurium sect. (fwd)

From: Steve Marak <samarak at arachne.uark.edu> on 1998.08.24 at 15:34:51(2554) This message was submitted by "Eduardo Gonçalves" to= list aroid-l@mobot.org. If you forward it back to the list, it will be distribut= +More ed without the paragraphs above the dashed line. You may edit the Subject: lin= e and the text of the message before forwarding it back. If you edit the messages you receive into a digest, you will need to remove these paragraphs and the dashed line before mailing the result to the list. Finally, if you need more information from the author of this message, you should be able to do so by simply replying to this note. ----------------------- Message requiring your approval -------------------= --- Sender: "Eduardo Gonçalves" Subject: Re: Searching for list of Paraguayan anthurium sect. Dear Thomas, There are only two species of Anthurium listed for Paraguay: A. plowmanii Croat and A. paraguayense Engler. Unfortunately, both are from the section Pachyneurium. Take a look at inflorescences with their peduncles. If they are longer than the petioles, your plant probably is a A. paraguayense. If they are much shorter than the petioles, so you must to be a proud owner of a A. plowmanii. I have a huge A. plowmanii in front of window and have seen lots of wild A. plowmanii in Southwestern Brazil, but I really dont remember their smell. I hope it helps Eduardo. >Dear Aroiders, > >I=B4m new at the Listserver and the Internet. I never thougt that so = >much Aroid enthusiast exist. I=B4m growing Anthurium, Philodendron = >species.=20 >Now I have a quaestion to all of you. >I get an anthurium from Paraguay, I decide thats it=B4s one of the = >section PACHYNEURIUM, but I didnt=B4t find it in the key of species at= = >the IAS server. >So I would ask if somebody knows literature about paraguayan Aroids, or = >has a list of known Paraguayan Anthuriums. >A little description: >If you ever smell this plant you would never forget it, the whole room = >smells really bad. The spatha is green and the berries are violett. The = >leaves are 5x longer than broad and reached 60 cm. >I=B4m new in computing and so I have no scanner or digital camera so I= = >can=B4t send any pictures. >I hope somebody can help me. > >Thomas Mottl > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

From: Krzysztof Kozminski <kk at netgate.net> on 1998.08.24 at 19:02:12(2557) On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Steve Marak wrote: > > Dear Thomas, > > There are only two species of Anthurium listed for Paraguay: A. > plowmanii Croat and A. paraguayense Engler. Unfortunately, both are from > the section Pachyneurium. Take a look at inflorescences with their > peduncles. If they are longer than the petioles, your plant probably is > a A. paraguayense. If they are much shorter than the petioles, so you > must to be a proud owner of a A. plowmanii. I have a huge A. plowmanii > in front of window and have seen lots of wild A. plowmanii in > Southwestern Brazil, but I really dont remember their smell. > > I hope it helps > > Eduardo. +More Assuming that the smell of A.plowmanni does not depend on the plant's maturity :-), I think A.plowmanni can be taken out of consideration, since it does not have any appreciable smell. At lease the one photographed in http://u1.netgate.net/~kk/Araceae/Anthurium/plowmanii.html did not have any. ==================== Krzysztof Kozminski kk@netgate.net http://u1.netgate.net/~kk/

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