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  [Aroid-l] A. pedatoradium from Chiapas
From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at exoticrainforest.com> on 2009.02.03 at 03:52:05(19031)
Windy, do I know that and I surewish I had your weather!

We are now considering selling our 120 year old colonial home with theatrium attached and move all the rare and wild collected specimens plusstarts of most everything from NW Arkansas to Little Rock. As some ofyou know my eventual goal is to donate the entire collection to theLittle Rock Zoo to be displayed in a new rain forest exhibit they arehoping to build. Almost all the plants in the ground will stay as wellas the hanging log since I'm afraid I would destroy it by trying totake it down.

My goal is to build a building twice this size so I can add even more"logs" as well as many rare and large aroid species. Due to Dr.Croat's work my concentration is now on Ecuadorian species and I need alot more room for plants to climb as well as places to hang all theplants from the ceiling as they grow. As you can see we use a lot of12 inch square orchid baskets to grow our large Anthurium species sothey at least appear to be in their natural epiphytic form. We alreadyhave specimens hanging over the walkways with 6 foot spans, especiallyon the opposite side of the pond and waterfall which isn't shown!

I'm hoping showing these photos does not violate my trust with Dereksince they were taken for an Aroideana article in the next issue. Asyou can see we've used up just about all the room. You'll at leastget to see a bit of color here on one photo including our largeepiphytic log which is now beginning to produce blooming orchids aswell as many bromeliad species with an inflorescence! The center posthas large species growing as high as 18 feet already! And by the way,if you want to buy a "rain forest" this one may soon be for sale, atleast a lot of it!

If you want to see more my article telling of all the mistakes we madewhile building our "rain forest" plus a lot more good reading will bein the next issue. If you're not already a member you need to go tothe International Aroid Society right now and join on the IAS website. That way you'll receive the next issue of Aroideana plus a lot more! http://www.aroid.org/

Steve Lucas

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