Re Anthurium 'Small Talk'

From: ERTELTJB at ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu on 1997.10.22 at 18:35:11(1465) [Moderator's note: this was posted several days ago and we've been trying to get it to go out properly (no fault of the sender). Sorry for the delay.] +More Several responses about where one can find Anthurium 'Small Talk,' but nothing on parentage that I have read so far. My guess from the description is that one of the parents is the wonderful and quite diminuitive A. amnicola. This is, I believe, a Panamanian endemic, found in very few locations. It was originally found at El Cope, I think by J. Folsom and R. Dressler back in the mid-late 70's. For a while this was thought to be the only location for it, but I seem to recall it later being found on another stream. It has small lavender flowers, and the original name indicated that, but was already designated to another species, so A. amnicola it became. The spadix is upright other features include the spicey fragrance typical of Euglossine pollinated flowers, and it grows generally on moss & silt covered rocks in streams. Since I seem to go on and on, it is perhaps fortunate that of the other parent I haven't a clue. I do know that A. amnicola has been used a fair amount in recent years in breeding work. Cheers and Good Growing. - Jonathan Ertelt

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