[Aroid-l] Aroids on Currency

From: "mossytrail" mossytrail at hctc.com> on 2006.02.26 at 22:53:02(13896) A couple of years ago, I was in Brunei Darussalam for a couple of days (too bad I didn't get to see any of its rain forests!). On Brunei's banknotes, on the obverse is (naturally) the portrait of the sultan to the right, and an image of a local plant to the left. On the reverse is a tropical rain forest scene. I noticed that the keladi lanut (purple leaved forest yam) depicted on the 10-ringgit note looked a lot like an Aroid. After a web search using the keyword: forest yam, I came up with a possible identification as Alocasia zebrina. Images of that species on the web do look like the one on the banknote, but I did not see any with purple leaves. Here is a link to a site showing Brunei currency; see if you concur with the i.d.: http://www.polymernotes.org/country_pages/BRN.htm +More I enjoyed reading the Aroideana articles on philately (stamps); I wonder if there are any numismatists among us who have seen other aroids on currency? Jason Hernandez Naturalist-at-Large _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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