Re: A. wentii, and pothos blooms

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2000.04.17 at 01:33:35(4388) Dear Eric, Your 'pothos' is a baby! Here in Florida it often 'escapes', and will grow up huge pine trees, rapidly transforming itself from the piddling little vine to a HUGE, monsterous climber, climbing to over 30 ft high, covering the trunk with it`s beautiful leaves, its stem up to 3" in dia., its leaves 3ft x 20 "!!! At this stage they do bloom, I was present at the late and great Monroe Birdsey`s home in Miami and asssisted Peter Boyce of Key Gardens in collecting a bloom from a HUGE one growing up the trunk of a huge tree! Cheers, Julius +More >Heyowdy all. I just bought an Alocasia called A. wentii. I can't seem to find any information on this species. Does anyone know anything about it like what its full size will be and what conditions it likes? Anything would be helpful. Thanks ahead of time. Now I have a question I have always wondered about. My whole life my mother had pothos ivies (Epipremnum aureum or Scindapsus areus) around the house and in my adult life I have always kept them around my house. To this day I have never seen one bloom. Do they bloom? I have grown them under all kinds of conditions of course. My mother even has one now growing in almost full sun near the Houston area!!! Anyone not from here let me just say that plants that are recommended for full sun we grow in part shade in the Houston area because the heat combined with the sun is just too intense for most plants (and people too!) Back to my question. Has anyone seen one bloom? Are there any pictures of the bloom on the web? If you have seen one bloom what conditions was it under. Of course I am not interested in pothos itself really; I just grow it as filler around the house and out on the porch but it has just bugged me that it is such a common plant and yet I have never had or seen it bloom. Eric

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