Climbing Aroid

From: "Steve Hammonds" lmgsteve at hotmail.com> on 2005.10.28 at 14:07:18(13472) Hello, A quick introduction is in order. I have been on this mailing list for a few year now & would like to thank everyone for all the valuable information freely given. I'm on the UK West Coast (Wales) & dabble in the less usual plants that can be grown in our wet USDA zone 9 climate. I have a couple of questions I hope you can help with. This is a Quote from a friend who encountered an unknown, to him, Aroid, growing in Madeira: "First one is an aroid that climbs exactly like a monstera but has leaves like a Typhonium venustum/Dracunculus vulgaris." I bumped into something similar wile holidaying in Jamaica several years back, & we think it may be the same or closely related. There is a picture at:- http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ttrainss/Oasis/climbingaroid.jpg Could sombody put a name to it for us? The second request is a little more commercial. I work for a small garden centre/nursery & my manager is interested in growing/selling some of the more hardy bulbous Aroids. If anybody has links, phone numbers or email addresses of commercial suppliers to the UK, I would be grateful to receive them. Could you please email them to tufftropicals@hotmail.com rather than posting to this board. Thank you, Steve Hammonds. +More _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

From: "Peter Boyce" botanist at malesiana.com> on 2005.10.29 at 23:42:33(13474) Hi Steve I couldn't open the link but from the description the climber sounds like Syngonium of which many spp. have Typhonium-like leaves as juveniles and Dracunculus-like leaves as adults. Pete +More ----- Original Message ----- To: Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 10:07 PM Subject: [Aroid-l] Climbing Aroid Hello, A quick introduction is in order. I have been on this mailing list for a few year now & would like to thank everyone for all the valuable information freely given. I'm on the UK West Coast (Wales) & dabble in the less usual plants that can be grown in our wet USDA zone 9 climate. I have a couple of questions I hope you can help with. This is a Quote from a friend who encountered an unknown, to him, Aroid, growing in Madeira: "First one is an aroid that climbs exactly like a monstera but has leaves like a Typhonium venustum/Dracunculus vulgaris." I bumped into something similar wile holidaying in Jamaica several years back, & we think it may be the same or closely related. There is a picture at:- http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ttrainss/Oasis/climbingaroid.jpg Could sombody put a name to it for us? The second request is a little more commercial. I work for a small garden centre/nursery & my manager is interested in growing/selling some of the more hardy bulbous Aroids. If anybody has links, phone numbers or email addresses of commercial suppliers to the UK, I would be grateful to receive them. Could you please email them to tufftropicals@hotmail.com rather than posting to this board. Thank you, Steve Hammonds. _______________________________________________ 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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