Re: Venezuelan Aroids

From: "patricia frank" <tricia_frank at hotmail.com> on 1999.01.24 at 04:09:28(2950) >From aroid-l@mobot.org Fri Jan 22 19:02:07 1999 >Received: from [199.217.210.100] by hotmail.com (1.1) with SMTP id MHotMailB87286AE34C9BD1017077C7D9D264062A0; Fri Jan 22 19:02:07 1999 >Received: from (localhost.mobot.org [127.0.0.1]) by mobot.mobot.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA58213 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:14:44 -0600 >Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:14:44 -0600 >Message-Id: >Errors-To: aroid-owner@mobot.org +More >Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org >Originator: aroid-l@mobot.org >Sender: aroid-l@mobot.org >Precedence: bulk >From: StellrJ@aol.com >To: tricia_frank@hotmail.com >Subject: Venezuelan Aroids >X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0b -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas > >Hello, Aroiders. > >Just last night, I got back from three weeks in Venezuela. I would like >to report a little bit on the Aroids I saw there. > >Unfortunately, I was only able to make one short trip into the cloud >forest in the Cordillera de Merida. However, while there, I saw that the >epiphytic Anthurium (I believe it may have been A. nymphaeifolium) was in >bloom, with pink and red spathes. A terrestrial Anthurium was not in >bloom. > >I spent two weeks in the dry forest of southwestern Barinas State. >There, I saw an abundance of Philodendron (likely P. fraternum) and >Syngonum, and lesser numbers of Monstera, whose local common name is "Tripa >de Pollo"--chicken-guts. None of these were in bloom, except possibly for >one Philodendron plant. > >To get from Merida to the site in Barinas, I traveled through Tachira via >San Cristobal. Along the highways, especially near settlements, were >colonies of Xanthosoma, possibly escaped from gardens (Tannia). Colocasia >(Taro) was much more rarely seen. In the Cordillera de Merida, many ravines >in villages had blooming Zantedeschia aethiopica, known as "Flower of the >Dead," and presumably planted for ornamental purposes. > >I have not yet had time to have my photos developed, but when they are, I >will see which ones have come out. In the meantime, I have a question >for those of you who are also members of the Heliconia society. In Barinas >State was an abundant pasture "weed" which had the classic Heliconia-type >leaf, but growing a branching stem and with a panicled inflorescence. Any >ideas what it was? Or will I have to wait for my pictures? > >Jason Hernandez >Naturalist-at-Large. > Jason what you described is defiantly a Calathea ,but would need your picture for identification. Tricia ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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