[Aroid-l] Monstera question..

From: lbmkjm at yahoo.com (brian lee) on 2008.06.25 at 18:07:01(17962) Dear Jason, Aloha. My hair falls out naturally. Monstera is a difficult group once you stray outside the few well known species. Discussion is healthy and I believe this thread will tease out some very useful information. It is good to make mistakes...as long as we learn from them. Aloha, Leland +More --- On Tue, 6/24/08, mossytrail wrote: > From: mossytrail > Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Monstera question.. > To: aroid-l at gizmoworks.com > Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 2:36 PM > >M. friedrichstahalii > > is a synonym of M. adansonii. However, plants of > mistaken > > determination labeled M. friedrichstalii were actually > M. > > siltepecana. > > :Pulling out my hair: AAARRRRGGGHHH!! > > How is anyone supposed to keep all this straight? So in my > last Aroideana article, I made reference to a plant that > could have been either one of two possible species, neither > of which are the name I used. I identified it as M. > freidrichsthallii based in part on _Exotica 4_, > supplemented > by Internet images. So now I'm spinning in circles > wondering whether it was M. adansonii, or M. siltepecana. > It was a persisting plant from a garden long since reverted > to rainforest in Hawaii, so there is no way to know the > provenance. > > All I can say is, it's a good thing that species was > just a > "cameo" in my article, not one of the main foci. > > Jason Hernandez > Naturalist-at-Large > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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