[Aroid-l] Cyrtosperma

From: samarak at gizmoworks.com (Steve Marak) on 2008.03.10 at 16:19:19(17152) For those in the Kansas City, Kansas/Missouri area of the central US, Bird's Botanicals has Cyrtosperma johnsonii. I picked up a small one (10 cm. pot, the leaf blades perhaps 20 cm. but with a meter of thorny stem) while there last November. It was immediately named "Scratchy" by everyone who had to be in the car with it. I can attest to its cold sensitivity, as mentioned by Julius and others. During the unloading phase of that trip, I just put it in a corner of the sun room until I could read up on it. The sun room gets down to about 16-18 C (60-65 F) at the edges, and within a couple of days the plant was already showing some unhappiness. It's now out in the center, where the temperature stays somewhat higher - and, of course, where I'm within its reach when I'm in there. Steve +More -- Steve Marak -- samarak at gizmoworks.com

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