Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid breeding problems+ Anthurium specific issues

From: "Windy Aubrey" <exotics at hawaii.rr.com> on 2009.01.10 at 21:40:31(18884) Aloha Leland, I would be happy to come by and see if I could help in identifying the unnamed Anthuriums you are growing, and offer some advise regarding their pollination. Windy +More ----- Original Message ----- From: "brian lee" To: "Discussion of aroids" Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 9:30 AM Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid breeding problems+ Anthurium specific issues > Dear Aroid-l > > Aloha. > > I have some large growing Anthurium...no data, so I do not know if they > are species or hybrids. They are beautiful. I do not want to hybridize > them in case they are species, so I have attempted to self them. Does > anyone have any tips for collecting the spare pollen and then, is there a > preferred method of storage? I can barely get any pollen from the > spadixes and a goodly amount tends to fall away. These are planted in a > landscape, so I do not have the luxury of being indoors in a wind free > environment. Some of the spadixes seem to set fruit, only to have them > abort soon after. All advice would be gratefully received. > > Aloha, > > Leland > > > --- On Tue, 1/6/09, mossytrail wrote: > >> From: mossytrail >> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid breeding problems >> To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com >> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 2:34 PM >> > I know this may open a box of worms, but I am curious >> if >> > these plants are said to evolve from one another then >> why >> > are these barricades even present? I can see this >> being >> > more difficult for other genus but for different >> species >> > it seems very odd. You would think more genus crosses >> > would be more frequent and not as rare as they seem to >> be >> > as well. Just my thoughts. >> > >> That is part of the speciation process. As long as two >> forms are still interfertile, someone can argue they are >> still the same species. Two subspecies become two species >> when they lose the ability to interbreed. >> >> As far as evolution, actually very little of it is the >> result of hybridization. Rather the opposite: two >> populations become isolated, and accumulate different >> mutations in the different locations. This acumulation of >> mutations eventually makes them different enough that they >> can no longer interbreed -- at which time we say they have >> speciated. >> >> Jason Hernandez >> Naturalist-at-Large >> _______________________________________________ >> Aroid-L mailing list >> Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com >> http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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