[Aroid-l] Varigated ZZ`s and more.

From: agoston.janos123 at gmail.com (Jan Agoston) on 2007.10.29 at 12:53:57(16626) I've heared, that there is a kind of chemical which can kill the chloroplasts in the cells, so maybe they use this on tissu cultured plants to get variegation. Well that's just my idear, maybe not true... Bye, janos +More 2007/10/28, Julius Boos : > > > > From : Ken Mosher > Reply-To : Discussion of aroids > Sent : Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:19 PM > To : Discussion of aroids > Subject : Re: [Aroid-l] Forms of ZZ plant -thanks + a tissue culture > question > > > Dear Ken, > > Thanks for the info:, from what I`ve heard, there is "something" going on > with this "varigated" kick, all sorts of plants are popping up in a > varigated form. A friend hinted to me that there is a process being used > to induce this varigation in MANY plants, just recently I heard of a > couple > plants of varigated Philodendron goeldii for sale in Asia, and even in > other > plant families way too many varigated cultivars are turning up for it just > to be by chance. > Does anyone have any info. on this?? > > The Best, > > Julius > > >>The very expensive Zamioculcas for sale at the IAS show was variegated. > That's why it was $100. There were several rooted cuttings in each > plastic sleeve and there were two available for sale. > > -Ken Mosher > > Julius Boos wrote: > > > >Dear Adam, > > > >Thanks for the kind words. Remember, I only suggested (in another > posting) > > that the Zamioculcas now commonly available because of tissue > culture may > >be modified and so be larger and more attractive 'selections' than the > wild > >'mother' plant might be. As far as I know little data is availabe on > these > >figures/facts. > >Like you, I like to have at last one wild-collected plant which the > tissue > >cultured plants can be compared to! > >There seem to be quite a few 'new' cultivars/selections which are said > to > >have been individuals selected and propagated from batches produced > from > >tissue culture. Several Alocasias, Philodendrons, Caladiums, etc. > come to > >mind. > >Michael Mahan reports that he saw cuttings of Zamioculcus for sale at > the > >IAS show for over $100.00, and others across the room, large potted > >specimens, for $30.00. I think that we can say that the cheaper ones > were > >the tissue-cultured specimens, I only wish I knew more about the story > >behind the specimens which were being sold for expensive prices! > > > >The Best, > > > >Julius > _ > > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/private/aroid-l/attachments/20071029/180987c4/attachment-0001.htm

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