Philodendron spp.

From: criswick at spiceisle.com (criswick) on 2007.09.16 at 21:54:12(16300) As this is the weekend of the International Aroid Society's annual show in Miami, I'm in an aroid mood and thought I would post these pictures of some current babies. ( In lieu of going.) First a picture of three lovely species, on the left is P. variifolium; in the centre is P. superbum of southern Brazil, a one-time contender for the Santa Leoploldina title, and on the right is P. branditianum. Philodendrons and Dieffenbachias were once my favourite plants, and I suppose that the spate of hybridisation of both these genera in the 1970s and 80s caused my interest to diminish. I am currently undergoing a revival of species-collecting. +More Next is a picture of the newest leaf on one of my specimens of P. melanochryson. It measures 27 inches in length, or 69 cm. I recently "topped" my tallest plant which was hitting the roof, and this is the rooted top, now at floor level and ready to climb a bamboo pillar to the top again. I'm trying to see how long I can get the leaves to be. I've heard of 9 feet , 2.75 m, in habitat in Colombia. Probably cool, at high altitude. John Criswick, Grenada. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20070916/d283cba2/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PICT0472.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 1247720 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20070916/d283cba2/attachment-0002.jpeg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PICT0473.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 562157 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20070916/d283cba2/attachment-0003.jpeg

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