Re: Anthurium trinerve

From: "Nick Miller" <millern at wave.co.nz> on 1997.09.18 at 02:52:39(1259) Dear Geoffrey Just a brief note to advise you that the seeds arrived today 18th September. That's quick service. I will sow them in damp vermiculite in a heated prop box. Let me know if there is anything I can send to return the favour. Cheers Nick Miller +More Rotorua, New Zealand > > 4 more packages of seed are going out today and I think that fulfils > everybodys requests,27 in total, if you asked me for seeds and do not > receive a package within the next week or so do let me know and I will try > again. With the vagaries of the various countries postal systems (I got > requests from as far afield as Taiwan, New Zealand, Paris etc) it would not > be surprising if one or two went astray. Early feedback from recipients > suggests 100 percent germination! Certainly my own sowing of these seeds is > now about 1/2 inch high and growing really strongly. > > I returned from a brief trip to Amsterdam last weekend and 'lo and behold', > guess what I saw in the famous flower market there, yup, you guessed it, > A. trinerve! So it seems that someone in Europe at least is growing and > distributing this plant (my original plant came from Stockholm, Sweden). If > you have never been to Amsterdam and can get there do make the effort, there > is a beautiful Botanic Garden attached to the Free University with a > wonderful aroid collection plus many other exotics. Hans Hvissers who is one > of the specialists there (he writes to this list also) is doing great work in > propagating and disseminating aroids and I am sure will be happy to see you. > We desperately need gardens like this one, it relies entirely on donations > and grants unlike the bigger national gardens in many countries and yet does > pioneering work in conservation and dissemination of species. My thanks to > Hans for a wonderful visit. > > Regards to all, > > Geoffrey Kibby > International Institute of Entomology > 56 Queen's Gate > London, SW7 5JR > Tel: 0171-584-0067 > e-mail: > g.kibby@cabi.org > > >

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