Re: Alocasia reversa, villanovii

From: Jonathan Ertelt jonathan.ertelt at vanderbilt.edu> on 1999.10.28 at 18:47:29(3794) >i'm having lots of trouble growing reversa. it seems to lose leaves as >quickly as it grows new ones. right now, it's down to one leaf. is this >species particularly hard to grow? >on the other hand, villanovii is quite beautiful... and it doesn't seem so >difficult... tsuh yang chen, Very interesting, since my experience is the opposite. I suspect from your selections that yours were received from Tropiflora. I acquired my A. reversa from Dewey, and it has done quite well, stretched a bit but stayed pretty compact, in one of my larger terraria. A. villanovii, on the other hand, in the same terrarium, never seemed to take hold and slowly declined -- it is now history. Assuming that yours are not bound by the ample moisture of a terrarium, this could be the explanation - A. reversa likes/needs that, while A. vaillanovii definitely does not? Just an offering from my own experience. Jonathan +More Jonathan Ertelt Greenhouse Manager Vanderbilt University Biology Department Box 1812, Sta. B Nashville, TN 37235

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