Small aroids

From: SelbyHort at aol.com on 1997.11.06 at 14:09:17(1579) Jonathan, This plant you mention is Syngonium rayi. It was collected in Costa Rica at the La Selva Biological Research Station. The plant grows in very deep shade as a terrestrial, creeping along the ground. It was collected in 1985 and was finally identified in 1991 by Croat. Check with Tom for more details. Donna Atwood Selby Gardens +More selbyhort@aol.com In a message dated 97-11-06 05:12:08 EST, Jonathan Ertelt wrote: << smaller Alocasias are also good. I also grow a stay-small species of Syngonium which I don't think has ever been named - I received a piece of it from the Marie Selby Gardens many years ago - dark-velvet green with a silvery mid-rib; it grows a half-dozen leaves or so, and then stem with occasional nodes for a foot or so before leaves resume or new shoots start. >>

From: Al Wootten <awootten at NRAO.EDU> on 1997.11.06 at 15:10:09(1580) SelbyHort@aol.com writes: > This plant you mention is Syngonium rayi. It was collected in Costa Rica at > the La Selva Biological Research Station. Donna, and others, My son will be participating in a 10th grade ecology class this summer which will include a ten day trip to Costa Rica, with a stay at La Selva Biological Research Station. In preparation, he has to do a number of research projects, involving reading articles on Costa Rican ecology and then writing a report on what he has found. If anyone has any recommendations, especially concerning aroids, we would certainly love to hear about them. I only wish I could go, but they told me that they had reached their limit! Clear skies, Al +More +---------------------------------------------------------+ |Al Wootten, Slacktide, Sturgeon Creek at the Rappahannock| |Astronomer (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/) | |Personal homepage http://members.tripod.com/~astral | |Deltaville, Virginia (804)776-6369 | +---------------------------------------------------------+

From: ERTELTJB at ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu on 1997.11.06 at 15:46:22(1581) Al - One easily observable aspect of aroid growth which would fall into the ecology section would be looking at light levels/other trigger mechanisms? for some Philodendron spp? and definitely some Monstera spp. going from juvenille to mature leaves, and in some cases back again. He seem to recall some illustrations on this in Janzen's book on Costa Rican Natural History - I suspect that that article would lead your son to others on the topic, or perhaps introduce other topics to him. Check into that book. Another topic of interest might be an exploration of aroid pollinators - we generally just hear of the nasty smelling species, but some are quite wonderful, especially those within the euglossine bee complex. And last but not least, a topic I find fascinating every time I encounter it is simply the different pollination complexes which exist, particualrly I'm thinking of the trapline strategy demonstrated by the euglossine bee complex and by humminbirds - probably others as well. Neat stuff all - I envy your son!! - Jonathan Ertelt

From: ERTELTJB at ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu on 1997.11.06 at 15:53:15(1582) Bravo Donna! Thank you so much for the i.d. on the Syngonium! I had the feeling that when I gave the description on this list, if it had been named then I would hear about it. Tom - can you provide any additional information, or let me know what it was published in?? Thank you thank you! Now - though it's not an aroid, I have a wonderful red-backed small microphylled Selaginella that I've been growing for years which I believe I rec'd from Marie Selby and was originally collected in Colombia - any i.d. information on this non-aroid beauty?? Cheers. - Jonathan

From: Tom Croat <croat at mobot.org> on 1997.11.06 at 16:04:06(1583) Al: There is an article written about the Araceae of La Selva by Mike Grayum in Aroideana. Mike and I have written the Araceae treatment for the Flora of La Selva but it is not yet published. Tom +More > > SelbyHort@aol.com writes: > > This plant you mention is Syngonium rayi. It was collected in Costa Rica at > > the La Selva Biological Research Station. > Donna, and others, > > My son will be participating in a 10th grade ecology class this summer > which will include a ten day trip to Costa Rica, with a stay at La Selva > Biological Research Station. In preparation, he has to do a number of > research projects, involving reading articles on Costa Rican ecology and > then writing a report on what he has found. If anyone has any > recommendations, especially concerning aroids, we would certainly love > to hear about them. I only wish I could go, but they told me that > they had reached their limit! > > Clear skies, > Al > +---------------------------------------------------------+ > |Al Wootten, Slacktide, Sturgeon Creek at the Rappahannock| > |Astronomer (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/) | > |Personal homepage http://members.tripod.com/~astral | > |Deltaville, Virginia (804)776-6369 | > +---------------------------------------------------------+ > > > -- Thomas B. Croat, Ph.D. P.A. Schulz Curator of Botany Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 phone: 314-577-5163; fax 314-577-9596; email croat@mobot.org

From: plantnut at shadow.net (Dewey Fisk) on 1997.11.06 at 17:46:03(1585) >Al: There is an article written about the Araceae of La Selva by Mike >Grayum in Aroideana. Mike and I have written the Araceae treatment for >the Flora of La Selva but it is not yet published. > Tom Aroideana, Volume 5, #2........for the Grayum article... $5. or $20. for Vol. 5 (four booklets) Dewey +More Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE Your Source for Tropical Araceae

From: Tom Croat <croat at mobot.org> on 1997.11.06 at 18:01:50(1587) Jonathon: It was published in the most recent Phytologia 82: 53.1997. The authorities are Croat & Grayum. tom +More > > Bravo Donna! Thank you so much for the i.d. on the Syngonium! I had the > feeling that when I gave the description on this list, if it had been named > then I would hear about it. Tom - can you provide any additional information, > or let me know what it was published in?? > Thank you thank you! > Now - though it's not an aroid, I have a wonderful red-backed small microphylled > Selaginella that I've been growing for years which I believe I rec'd from Marie > Selby and was originally collected in Colombia - any i.d. information on > this non-aroid beauty?? > Cheers. > - Jonathan > > -- Thomas B. Croat, Ph.D. P.A. Schulz Curator of Botany Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 phone: 314-577-5163; fax 314-577-9596; email croat@mobot.org

From: BASSPROF at aol.com on 1997.11.07 at 18:50:12(1594) Dear Johnathan, Your Selaginella might be S. erythropus. Size and color fits your description, but I do not know its origin. Hope this helps rather than confuses. +More Best, Lynn Hannon << Now - though it's not an aroid, I have a wonderful red-backed small microphylled Selaginella that I've been growing for years which I believe I rec'd from Marie Selby and was originally collected in Colombia - any i.d. information on this non-aroid beauty?? Cheers. - Jonathan >>

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