Re: Anubias ID and help requested

From: Tom Croat <croat at mobot.org> on 1997.03.28 at 03:26:57(547) Dear Julius: I have a revision of Anubias so if you send me a photo some time perhaps I can key this thing out for you. Tom +More > > ---------- > From: aroid-l@mobot.org on behalf of Frank C. Marini > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 12:27 AM > To: Julius Boos > Subject: Anubias ID and help requested > > Hello to all in the knowledge: > I was pointed to this site-because you are the world expert on plants. > [Q] > I recently purchased two very werid pieces of anubias which I can't > identify > This anubias looks unlike my other pieces (a.congonsis, > barteri, nana) its has very tall slender stalks (8-10" tall) with a > arrowhead shaped leaf which points up at a 45 degree angle, the bottom > of each leaf is forked and curls up to form a cup like structure. It > appears to be an anubias, but with a twist. These little projections at > the bottom point down and outward and are about 1" long. > CAN ANY ONE HELP ME IDENTIFY THIS PLANT > This is a drawing of the leaf > > leaf top -------------> x > x x > x x > x x > x x > x x > middle of leaf--------> x x > x x > x x > x x x x > x x x x > x x x x bottom of knub > xx x x x x xx > x x > x x > stem -------------- > x x > > I am positive it is an anubias. Rhizome, roots structures. Additionally > new leaves are appearing which are not the same shape-they appear to be > more of a rounded spearhead shape w/ no sign of the little flanges at > the bottom. > Also I beleive something is > wrong w/ this anubias because the bottom of the plant (where the leaf > meets the > rhizome) is turning brown, and one leaf looks as though it is "rotting > off". ANY SUGGESTIONS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. > frank > > Dear Frank, I've previously seen what you discribe [leaf-shape, etc.] in > the above-water leaves on a plant grown in deep water in Miami some years ago. > The thing is that cuttings from this same plant, but grown under different > conditions and water depths produced leaves of a DIFFERENT shape to the > original!!! > Anubias is a VERY variable genus, and until you can produce an infloresence > for positive I.D. at a herbarium or somesuch, you'll have to make do with > whatever name you can come up with for the time being. > The plant may not have a problem- they are generally VERY hardy but slow > growing, and may loose several or most of their leaves when transplanted, > especially to a new enviroment with new light levels, water depth, etc. They > will produce DIFFERENT shaped leaves [as you see]. Keep your eyes on the NEW > growth and leaves, and expect the old to rot off. As long as the rhizome is > firm, iy will recover!! > Hope this helps! > Reguards, Julius ju-bo@msn.com > > -- Thomas B. Croat, Ph.D. P.A. Schulz Curator of Botany Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 phone: 314-577-5163; fax 314-577-9596; email croat@mobot.org

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