Re: Black Spathed Anthurium Hybrids

From: Denis denis at skg.com> on 2001.01.25 at 13:56:36(5870) Response to Tsuh Yang Chen: To My knowledge no one has produced any usable hybrids for the horticultural industry. I have seen several times the "Black" flowered Anthurium which grows in the high altitudes in the Andes. I do not believe that it has successfully used to make any good hybrids. I did send a plant of Anthurium antioquiense (small, freely suckering strap leaf, with small white flowers used in making modern pot type flowering hybrids when crossed with A. andraeanum types) to a Phalaeanopsis grower in Chicago area so that he could hybridize it to the Black Spathed thing he got from growers in Colombia. He did get some results but I have not seen them... he did not seem to excited by them. The only black flowered one out there right now is A. watermaliense which is really a Pachyneurium (Birdnest) type and not Calomystrium. If any one knows of another black flowered Anthurium that will grow in a nursery at sea level in the tropics, I would certainly like to hear about it. +More Piabinha@aol.com wrote: > > denis et al, > > has there been a black-spathe anthurium developed? > > tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA > http://www.egroups.com/group/orchidspecies

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