Anthurium scents

From: GeoffAroid at aol.com on 2002.07.29 at 02:59:24(9128) Just thought I would report on a nice little Anthurium I have in flower at the moment. I picked it up in a florists in Amsterdam and it is labelled as a hybrid called Pico Bello. It is obviously an A. amnicola hybrid, possibly with A.amnioquiense and has deep purple spadices with small, pale pinkish-lavender spathes. Having read in Deni Bown's book the description of the discovery of amnicola and that it had an attractive scent of peppermint I was intrigued to find that sitting on my windowsill on a warm sunny afternoon this hybrid also has a lovely sweet smell of peppermint! Obviously it has a large percentage of amnicola genes including the all important one for smell. My next step is to try and self-pollinate it to get seedlings even closer to the original amnicola type (my hunt for genuine amnicola has so far been in vain....). +More Does anyone know if amnicola is indeed extinct in the wild or have further populations been found? Do any other Anthurium species have this delightful smell (I am not sure if the other probable parent - amnioquiense - has any odour). Of course if anyone out there in aroid land has the real species and ever gets berries/divisions please remember me (on my knees here grovelling....). Regards to all, Geoffrey Kibby London p.s. it it just me or has it been really quiet on here for the last few weeks? Very few aroid postings.

From: Durightmm at aol.com on 2002.07.30 at 06:12:17(9133) Vacation tiome I presume.  Glad to see some activiyt>  Joe

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