Re: 'Lost' Caladium sp/var.

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 1999.11.28 at 20:22:23(3876) Dear Friends, This request goes out to all the Caladium lovers among us, and is based on memory only!! I am looking to replace a Caladium I once grew, I obtained it many years ago from a good friend in Goulds, Florida, and he no longer has it. I would expect that some grower or collector in the S. Florida area MAY still have it in their collection, and if so I`d love to hear from them. As best that I can recall it was a small plant, about the size of a large C. humboldtii, but had slightly 'ruffled' leaves of a C. bicolor shape, and was colored a dark purplish with lighter pinkish spots, and would remind one of a tallish, miniature C. bicolor rubicundrum or a 'dark' C. humboldtii. This description may not be fully accurate as it is based on an OLD memory, but should anyone see or have a plant of this, I`d love to hear from them. +More A wonderful page on Caladium's to 'visit' can be found in the links from the MOBOT site-- http://www.aroid.org/links/index.html Scroll down and click on Dr. Paul Resslar`s Caladium page, where several super-rare species can be viewed. LOTS of other GREAT Aroid sites to surf also! Cheers and good growing, Julius

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