OT Strelitzia

From: James Waddick jwaddick at kc.rr.com> on 2005.02.08 at 19:04:58(12656) Dear IASers; Excse the off topic question on Strelitzia juncea. Adult plants can get to near 8 ft with long grey-green petioles, no leaf blade. Flowers are very similar to typical bird-of-paradise. My question. Do seedlings resemble typical S. reginae ( i.e with a leaf blade) ? If so, when do the new leaves emerge without a leaf blade? +More Thanks Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F + _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: "Rob Nicholson" RNICHOLS at email.smith.edu> on 2005.02.08 at 20:25:43(12657) Dear Dr. Waddick, I raised this taxa from seed started in 1998 (Smith number 40-98, Sseed from Silverhill Seed , Capetown, S. Africa (on the web) and was received as S. juncea. It had fully bladed leaves at first and each subsequent flush of leaves had smaller blades and our plant now has three foot long leaves which are topped by a minute 1" wide by 4" long oval blade. We can photograph and send as file if need be. Regards, Rob nicholson +More conservatory manager >>> jwaddick@kc.rr.com 2/8/2005 2:04:58 PM >>> Dear IASers; Excse the off topic question on Strelitzia juncea. Adult plants can get to near 8 ft with long grey-green petioles, no leaf blade. Flowers are very similar to typical bird-of-paradise. My question. Do seedlings resemble typical S. reginae ( i.e with a leaf blade) ? If so, when do the new leaves emerge without a leaf blade? Thanks Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F + _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: "Tropicals" Tropicals at SolutionsAnalysis.net> on 2005.02.08 at 22:51:24(12658) Thanks for providing a name Jim; we too have this 'leaf less' wonder...Christian Your AlterNative Solutions Team +More www.SolutionsAnalysis.net Direct to Tropical / Desert Nursery http://www.solutionsanalysis.net/cgi-bin/store/agora.cgi -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of James Waddick Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 2:05 PM To: Discussion of aroids Subject: [Aroid-l] OT Strelitzia Dear IASers; Excse the off topic question on Strelitzia juncea. Adult plants can get to near 8 ft with long grey-green petioles, no leaf blade. Flowers are very similar to typical bird-of-paradise. My question. Do seedlings resemble typical S. reginae ( i.e with a leaf blade) ? If so, when do the new leaves emerge without a leaf blade? Thanks Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F + _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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