From: Carol Ann Bonner cadastra at mindspring.com> on 2001.08.13 at 15:37:30(7235)
Hi, Russ,
How nice of you to remember and reply! I've had a couple of posts to the
lists that I wondered if anyone got (although the one to which you refer
wasn't one of them.)
Yes, I was aware that many - I don't know about all - philodendrons and
synogniums have different adult leaves than juvenile leaves. I helped my
mother plant her household pothos in the ground after they moved to
Leesburg and it shot up about 15 feet with leaves probably a foot across,
but, of course, not dissected. What I don't know is how much Syngonium
leaves change and whether the strongly tripartite ones I've seen in
pictures are characteristic of certain species or are just more mature. A
friend here just gave me a white-variegated form of S. podophyllum on
Saturday. What I'd really like is one of the philodendrons that climbs and
develops highly dissected leaves. It has to climb since I have much more
vertical space than horizontal! I'm afraid my greenhouse is afflicted with
the all-too-common disease of tripled-in-size/quadrupled-in-content. Most
of the aroids I have are small and not-so-rare, but I have a lot of other
plants I could trade. Any other plant families you're interested in?
BTW, where in central Florida are you?
Carol Ann
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have At 03:23 PM 8/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello Carol Ann. Russ in central Fla here, member of the Aroid Society
>discussion group. I had your email
>from the end of May still saved on my computer, and wondered if you had any
>luck in obtaining the
>Syngonium you wanted. I assume the 'highly dissected' form you requested
>would simply be a fully mature tip cutting. You probably already know this:
>After climbing a tree or post to maturity, leaves go from small and
>entire, to larger and dissected 3, 5, 7, 9 lobes. If the tip becomes
>disengaged from the surface it will start to go back to the immature, entire
>leaf form with much more distance between nodes; a 'runner' if you will,
>until it
>finds another surface to climb. Philodendrons change form when they climb
>also, some develop huge leaves, also the common yellow variegated 'Pothos'.
>At any rate, I can send you any number of this form of S. podophyllum. I
>grows like a weed on my mother's lattice privacy fence in Cocoa Beach, and
>can be quite
>invasive here. I have a large collection of rare Aroids, mostly
>Philodendron, Syngonium, Monstera, Alocasia, Aglaonema, etc. I think the
>white variegated form of S. podophyllum would be more decorative for
>your greenhouse, and it will become dissected also, but in a much smaller
>form that the all green type, which
>can get leaves a foot or more across. I could send this in immature form
>also, or others if you're interested.
>
>Good growing,
>Russ.
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