> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:23:51 -0600
> Reply-to: aroid-l@mobot.org
> From: "Richard Mansell (BIO)"
> To: zhu
> Subject: Re: Fenestrated aroids
> Might we also add Dracontium to the list of fenestrated aroids?
>
> Dick
>
> On Fri, 10
> Jan 1997, Eduardo Gomes Goncalves wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Wallace Wells wrote:
> >
> > > I have owned Monstera deliciosa and recently got M. pitterii. I am
> > > interested in other fenestrated or 'holed-leaved' aroids and would
> > > like comment from others who are cultivating the same. I know there
> > > are Philodendrons with this characteristic.
> >
> > The only genera of Araceae that I'm aware about the presence of
> > fenestrations are: Monstera (as you already know), Dracontioides (a water
> > dweller from Brazil), Raphidophora, Epipremnum and maybe some Anchomanes.
> > I have never seen a fenestrated Philodendron and I think they don't exist
> > at all. Some pictorial books of horticulture (e.g. Exotica) usually show a
> > young Monstera deliciosa identificated as "Philodendron pertusum" and I
> > think it can confuse a lot of people.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Eduardo
> >
> >
>
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