Anthurium "Circus Peanuts"

From: Durightmm at aol.com on 2000.07.02 at 16:04:45(4949) Mike Bush while at Selby years back made a cross with ANTHURIUMS dresslerii and leucostachyum. It was never named but subsequently was dubbed "Circus Peanuts" because of it's perceived odor. I would like to know if anyone has grown seeds from it as a self. Because it is hybrid there is the possibility it is sterile. I presently have 4 infructescenses all developing fruit. I am naturally hopeful they are fertile. Any comments Joe

From: plantnut at macconnect.com (plantnut) on 2000.07.02 at 21:41:16(4956) Joe, I have a plant of A. 'Circus Peanuts' but it is not in the neighborhood of shaving an inflorescence. Over the years, mine has been up and down the scale of doing well and not so... BTW, at Selby, they call it A. 'Mike's Goliath'. Tom Croat put the handle that we use on it... He said the inflorescence smelled like the little things that elephants like.... Hot Roasted Peanuts... (Also reminds me of sitting at tables in the jungles of Ecuador with beer and peanuts, an experinece that I had a few times.... lots of fun.{Dave L and Betsy F. will have this memory also}..) Dewey +More >Mike Bush while at Selby years back made a cross with ANTHURIUMS dresslerii >and leucostachyum. It was never named but subsequently was dubbed "Circus >Peanuts" because of it's perceived odor. I would like to know if anyone has >grown seeds from it as a self. Because it is hybrid there is the possibility >it is sterile. I presently have 4 infructescenses all developing fruit. I >am naturally hopeful they are fertile. Any comments Joe Your source for Tropical Araceae. You are invited to visit:

From: SelbyHort at aol.com on 2000.07.03 at 18:58:39(4964) Actually Tom named the 'Circus Peanuts' Anthurium for the smell of that atrocious candy that you buy in celephane bags at candy counters that is shaped like giant peanuts in their shells. This orange sherbet-colored candy has a ghastly foam texture with the sicky-sweet fake smell (and taste) of bananas (amyl acetate) that is used for cheap artifical banana flavoring. The scent from the flowers has this same amyl acetate component and is quite distinctive. It does not smell like beer or real peanuts or anything like that! The name is quite a joke but is not a really fitting name for such a hybrid so we chose instead to call it 'Mike's Goliath' to honor Mike Bush, who made the original hybrid back in the early 1980's. Donna Atwood Selby Gardens +More << BTW, at Selby, they call it A. 'Mike's Goliath'. Tom Croat put the handle that we use on it... He said the inflorescence smelled like the little things that elephants like.... Hot Roasted Peanuts... (Also reminds me of sitting at tables in the jungles of Ecuador with beer and peanuts, an experinece that I had a few times.... lots of fun.{Dave L and Betsy F. will have this memory also}..) >>

From: Durightmm at aol.com on 2000.07.04 at 00:05:25(4969) Thank you Donna, however the maun part of my quesation is what experience growing it selfed from seed. Are ythe seeds viable. Does Selby grow it from seed? My plant was purchased there but I do not know how it was propagated. Soon perhaps I can give you my results. Pray for me. Joe

From: SelbyHort at aol.com on 2000.07.04 at 02:03:04(4971) Joe, We have always propagated this plant from cuttings. From seed, if this is even possible, I would imagine that you will obtain many different kinds of clones, some of which will not look anything like 'Circus Peanuts'. The parents of this hybrid are pretty different, so hybrid progeny might vary quite a bit. Good Luck! Donna +More << Thank you Donna, however the maun part of my quesation is what experience growing it selfed from seed. Are ythe seeds viable. Does Selby grow it from seed? My plant was purchased there but I do not know how it was propagated. Soon perhaps I can give you my results. Pray for me. Joe >>

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