Re: Philodendron winterbournii? ("Xanadu")

From: Neil Crafter golfstra at senet.com.au> on 2001.12.20 at 04:10:04(7959) Arno and others I understand Tom Croat is planning to write up P."Xanadu" as a good species and call it P. winterbournii or similar. I don't know where this is at currently, perhaps Tom can advise. I do know that Tom and Julius were convinced that this plant is a good species and not a sport of P.bipinattifidum as claimed. The other plant you mention P."Millenium", is a poor mans version of "Xanadu". I have it and it has been pretty disappointing for me as I can't get it to give me leaves that are close to what I'd call mature ones. If the "finders" of this one are claiming they found this as a sport in a bunch of bipinnatifidum seed as well, then I think that is taking coincidences too far! Arno, what do you grow up your way? Are you a Philo person like me? If so we should correspond and see if we can do some mutual swaps. Cheers Neil +More Neil Crafter Adelaide, Australia Arno King wrote: > Some 10 years ago I visited the Seidel Nursery in > Corupa, Brazil. Behind the shadehouses, the large > arborescent Philodendrons are grown in what I remember > to be a large paddock area. > > There were many plants in this area and there were a > lot of different species or forms collected from all > around Brazil. Some were very different to anything I > had ever seen before.The plants were very large and I > was told how they were hand pollinated to set seed. I > suspect that there would also be some natural cross > pollination ocuuring between plants. > > I have seen quite a bit of variation in seedlings > grown from this seed. I was also told that the > Phildendron marketed as 'Xanadu'(also known as > 'Winterborn') came up in this seed in a nursery in > Perth, Western Australia. A similar plant recently > came up in seed grown in a nursery in Wynnum, > Brisbane. > > This plant is being marketed as 'Millenium, however it > has not proved popular. Although almost identical to > 'Xanadu'the leaves are not as regularly placed, so the > plant appears untidy. It would be great to cross > polinate thes two plants and see what the progeny turn > out like. This may also help track down the true > identity of these plants. > > Arno King, Brisbane Australia > > --- brian williams wrote: > > Dear Julius and others. I thought it maybe > > interesting to know that ALVIM > > SEIDEL the nursery in Brazil. Has Philo selloum > > seeds for sell. Not only one > > form but all these forms. > > selloum 9.00 > > selloum var compactum 20.00 > > selloum var Sao Paulo 12.00 > > Selloum var Urugay 12.00 > > > > > > also > > bipinnatifidum 8.00 > > > > As from reading other e-mails it would be nice to > > see what a lot of the > > seedlings would come out to look like. > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > > > ===== > > Arno > arnoking@yahoo.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com

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