cross breading ????

From: Pugturd at aol.com on 2000.02.06 at 17:36:17(4059) Hello this is Brian Williams. I have a few questions about a subject I have no clue on. Well, I have a few Anthuriums blooming. Now one is a birdsnest type and the other one is a more common heart shaped form. Is it possible to cross bread these? If so what does it look like? If not why? I would also like to know if Urospatha and Cyrtosperma could be crossed? I heard they are very closely related. Could it be possible? If their is some law or way to know what can be crossed bread I would like to know. I cannot find any information on it anywhere, and if I do it is a little over my head. THANKS

From: Neil Carroll zzamia at hargray.com> on 2000.02.07 at 15:10:03(4064) > Hello this is Brian Williams. I have a few questions about a subject I have > no clue on. Well, I have a few Anthuriums blooming. Now one is a birdsnest +More > type and the other one is a more common heart shaped form. A good place to start would be online at the IAS website. If you go to genera and then anthurium you will come to the intro page for anthurium. Read the article on the sections of anthurium. In that article the sections of anthurium are described and then the article offers information on trial crosses between different sections of anthurium. The birdsnest type you have is likely in Section pachyneurium and the heart shaped leaf could be in any number of sections including, Calomystrium, Belolonchium and Cardiolonchium. That should get you started. Also, there is a brief article on how to pollinate anthuriums at my site.... http://www.aroid.org/TAP/articles.html Don't know about Cyrtosperma and Urospatha.......Julius?? Neil

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.02.08 at 15:13:12(4073) Dear Friends, I have 'done' a Urospatha from the Orinoco Delta by a Urospatha grandis from Costa Rica BOTH WAYS, but don`t THINK a Urospatha X Crytosperma would 'take', too distantly related, I THINK!! Alsitar Hay did C. cuspidispathum X C. becarianum some years ago, wonderful offspring, beautiful plants. Lots of hybrids in Anthurium, have seen some strange ones, including birdsnest form crossed to a cordate form (I am not 'big' into this genus, but believe both belonged to the section Pachyneurium. +More Good luck Brian!! Cheers, Julius

From: StellrJ at aol.com on 2000.02.09 at 15:06:22(4080) In a message dated 02/07/2000 7:10:17 AM Pacific Standard Time, zzamia@hargray.com writes: > In that article the sections +More > of anthurium are described and then the article offers information on trial > crosses between different sections of anthurium. > The birdsnest type you have is likely in Section pachyneurium Can someone explain what is the difference between a section and a subgenus? Jason Hernandez Naturalist-at-Large

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