Re: not an aroid question

From: Hermine Stover <hermine at endangeredspecies.com> on 1997.01.17 at 19:32:34(155) Some dog here ate the hortus so I cannot be sure of the spelling, but if your plant has linearly sort of quilted leaves it is a Medinilla and had pendulous panicles of pinkish flowers. The bark is very...bark-like. I find mine to be intolerant of cool temps, a real tropical item. But the leaves are certainly linear/quilted. Or, I am wrong. Hermine +More At 10:58 AM 1/16/97 -0600, you wrote: >I'm going to be obnoxious and ask a non-aroid question here. I apologize >but am going to be asking everywhere till I track down the info. > >While I was in Miami last week, I went to a nursery. There, I found a >plant that I hadn't seen before. I bought 3 rooted cuttings of it. The >owner called it a Mandanella. > >No, it's not a Mandevilla. I have several of those, know they used to be >called Dipladenia and recognize them a mile away. > >I dragged out my copy of the Exotica to try to describe the plant. This is >tougher than I thought. > >It has smooth edged (entire) elliptic shaped leaves that are arranged in an >opposite pattern. The leaves are thick, have pinnate venation (although >you can't see the sub-branches as shown in the Exotica). The leaf >attachment is halfway between stalked and sessile though closer to sessile. > >The flowers are in my memory only and I haven't seen it for 5 days. What I >recall, though, reminded me of some bromeliad flowers I've seen. I looked >through the exotica, can't find the exact one it reminded me of, but the >closest I can come is Aechmea gracilis. The mass of flowers was perhaps >4-5 inches long and 1 inch wide. They looked like pink match heads with >blue tips. (...or was it blue matchheads with pink tips? No, I think the >former.) > >So with this kind of a vague description, can anyone help? (I feel like >some of the people I know who ask about a plant they have at home. "It's >big and has pretty red flowers.") > >I apologize for diverting attention from aroids. > Les > > > >

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