Re: Anthurium splendidum

From: SelbyHort at aol.com on 2000.03.31 at 21:55:22(4290) Jay, The plant you are calling Anthurium splendidum is now called A. luxurians, I believe. Betsy mentioned in her message about two different species called A. splendidum. The ones you saw at Selby are now correctly called A. luxurians (these have very dark glossy bullate leaves and are extremely hard to grow without very high humidity and warm conditions year round). The species now correctly called A. splendidum was once mistakenly called A. corrugatum...but I may be wrong about this point. Mixed up with this is the true Anthurium corrugatum and the plant once called A. corrugatum but now called A. splendidum. Are we are totally confused yet??? I hope someone clears up this issue and correct any mistakes I might have made here, because I am still not certain about the way these species have been sorted out. +More We have tried growing Anthurium luxurians in several different media. I will have to get info about what was done and report back to the list if one media type was better than others. Our plants are looking pretty good now. If you ever have them go down, they are very slow to recover, so the trick is to keep them stable in cultivation and they will gradually put out new leaves and grow slightly larger each year. It takes many years to get a plant to produce a large leaf blade...Selby's plants are at least 15 years old. Donna Atwood Selby Gardens

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