>wanted to say that this plant which I am sure that you have seen at
>Selby has dramatically changed in the past year. For years it was
>dwarfed (Donna Atwood thinks it was due to an overdose of something) but
>when I saw it recently it was many times larger, with leaf blades to ca
>25 cm long. I am sure glad I was patient on this new species!
Tom,
Which unpublished name are you referring too? The post and prior message
refer to several plants.
Carlo
> By the way if we really want to talk about small aroids we do
>have to consider Lemna. While currently in the Lemnaceae molecular work
>has shown that group to be practically inseparable from Pistia and the
>Kew group will be proposing it to be subsumed within the Aroideae as a
>close relative of Pistia.
> Tom
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>> Her's a couple more very small aroids... Anthurium bessei can be seen at:
>> and Caladium
>> humboldtii var. Marcel.. This is one of the prettiest.. and it only gets
>> about an inch or two high!!!!
>> Dewey
>>
>> Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut
>> THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE
>> Your Source for Tropical Araceae
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>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
>
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Carlo A. Balistrieri, J.D. Email: CABalist@facstaff.wisc.edu
P.O. Box 327
Ashippun, WI 53003-0327
U.S.A.
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