he
> veins being more muted brown. is it possible that it is a sanderiana o=
r is it
> mislabelled?
Hi Chen,
As the old cliché goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words!" Try to =
get a few
photos of different aspects of your putative A. sanderana, and either hav=
e them
scanned for posting on the IAS species identification site, or send the p=
hotos
off to Lester Kallus, the keeper of the ID site for him to scan and post =
for
you. You can find the link to him from the Links button on the IAS site =
at
http://hoya.mobot.org/ias/ Perhaps we can all give you our two bits wort=
h then.
> Also, what's the parentage of amazonica?
There was a thread on this topic late last year: You can find it in the =
archives
at http://www.mallorn.com/lists/aroid-l/ According to Alocasia expert Da=
vid
Burnett in his very informative and nicely illustrated "The Cultivated Al=
ocasia"
of Aroideana Volume 7, Numbers 3 and 4
(http://hoya.mobot.org/ias/Society/bk-issue.html), the parentage of Aloca=
sia x
amazonica is historically listed as A. lowii x A. sanderana. However, I =
spoke
with noted aroid hybridizer John Banta today, and he gave me his observat=
ions on
the plant: Some years ago John had hybridized A. sanderana with A. watso=
niana,
and got progeny that were A. x amazonica in all respects. This seems ver=
y
plausible to me after noting photos of the plants in question in Burnett'=
s book.
Alocasia watsoniana has distinctively bullate leaves that seem to have ca=
rried
over into to the putative A. x amazonica hybrid. It is also possible acc=
ording
to John Banta that A. sanderana has such dominant traits that it can caus=
e
hybrids with several species, including A. lowii, to have the A. x amazon=
ica
appearance.
It all sounds like an excellent candidate for DNA analysis at the molecul=
ar
level. Anyone know of possible grant money? Just kidding...
Best regards, Scott
Mr. Scott E. Hyndman
Winter Park, Florida, USA
USDA Hardiness Zone 9b
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