Caladium Marcel source

From: Michael Marcotrigiano marcotrigiano at pssci.umass.edu> on 2000.03.17 at 04:02:39(4229) I would be interested in obtaining Caladium humboltii 'Marcel'. If anyone knows of a source could you let me know. Thanks ************************************************************* +More Michael Marcotrigiano Professor Rm 211 French Hall Dept of Plant and Soil Sciences Univ of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 USA ------------------------------------ voice: 413-545-5227 fax: 413-545-3075 att: Michael Marcotrigiano email: marcotrigiano@pssci.umass.edu

From: Don Burns donburns at macconnect.com> on 2000.03.18 at 01:52:07(4233) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:41:14 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: denis@skg.com Originator: aroid-l@mobot.org +More Sender: aroid-l@mobot.org Precedence: bulk To: aroid-owner@mobot.org Subject: Re: Caladium Marcel source MIME-Version: 1.0 Dear Michael: Concerning this Plant I will give the History as far as I know. The late Dr. Monroe Birdsey brought back a flask (in vitro) of this Plant from his visit to France to the nursery of Marcel Lecoulf (not sure of this Spelling). Dr. Birdsey did not have a growing facility where he could handle Plants of this size so he sold the flask to my Nursery. From this flask we got maybe 200 liners wihich we grew on and distributed at Aroid shows and Plant Sales. Scott Hyndman subsequently requested some research material and I sent him what remained of the liners for his project. I did not like the minature dwarfiness if the plant. TOO Slow, no vigor, never grew much bigger than 4 ". Scott allowed his plants to go dormant and go through the Cool Winter Weather in Orlando and Low a behold he found that the plants lost their minature growth habit and lack of vigor and reverted to being plain C. humboldtii. This tends to indicate to me that perhaps there is no distinct 'Marcel' variety but a chemically or physiologically induced dwarfism that can be overcome by vernalizing the plants. If you want this clone Marcel, I am afraid that the only place you can be sure of getting it is to go back to Lecoufle in France and buy them in a bottle. But from my perspective as a grower you would be better off without the runty little things. Check with Scott, if he hasn't already responded to you about this variety. Denis at Silver Krome Gardens Michael Marcotrigiano wrote: > I would be interested in obtaining Caladium humboltii 'Marcel'. If anyone > knows of a source could you let me know. Thanks > ************************************************************* > Michael Marcotrigiano > Professor > Rm 211 French Hall > Dept of Plant and Soil Sciences > Univ of Massachusetts > Amherst, MA 01003 USA

From: Don Burns donburns at macconnect.com> on 2000.03.18 at 01:59:59(4237) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:41:14 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: denis@skg.com Originator: aroid-l@mobot.org +More Sender: aroid-l@mobot.org Precedence: bulk To: aroid-owner@mobot.org Subject: Re: Caladium Marcel source MIME-Version: 1.0 Dear Michael: Concerning this Plant I will give the History as far as I know. The late Dr. Monroe Birdsey brought back a flask (in vitro) of this Plant from his visit to France to the nursery of Marcel Lecoulf (not sure of this Spelling). Dr. Birdsey did not have a growing facility where he could handle Plants of this size so he sold the flask to my Nursery. From this flask we got maybe 200 liners wihich we grew on and distributed at Aroid shows and Plant Sales. Scott Hyndman subsequently requested some research material and I sent him what remained of the liners for his project. I did not like the minature dwarfiness if the plant. TOO Slow, no vigor, never grew much bigger than 4 ". Scott allowed his plants to go dormant and go through the Cool Winter Weather in Orlando and Low a behold he found that the plants lost their minature growth habit and lack of vigor and reverted to being plain C. humboldtii. This tends to indicate to me that perhaps there is no distinct 'Marcel' variety but a chemically or physiologically induced dwarfism that can be overcome by vernalizing the plants. If you want this clone Marcel, I am afraid that the only place you can be sure of getting it is to go back to Lecoufle in France and buy them in a bottle. But from my perspective as a grower you would be better off without the runty little things. Check with Scott, if he hasn't already responded to you about this variety. Denis at Silver Krome Gardens Michael Marcotrigiano wrote: > I would be interested in obtaining Caladium humboltii 'Marcel'. If anyone > knows of a source could you let me know. Thanks > ************************************************************* > Michael Marcotrigiano > Professor > Rm 211 French Hall > Dept of Plant and Soil Sciences > Univ of Massachusetts > Amherst, MA 01003 USA > ------------------------------------ > voice: 413-545-5227 > fax: 413-545-3075 att: Michael Marcotrigiano > email: marcotrigiano@pssci.umass.edu Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Denis Rotolante Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf"

From: hermine hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 2000.03.18 at 15:03:40(4244) > > >Concerning this Plant I will give the History as far as I know. The late Dr. >Monroe Birdsey brought back a flask (in vitro) of this Plant from his visit >to France to the nursery of Marcel Lecoulf Marcel Lecoufle the Orchid Guy! having a wee flashback hermine

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