RE: Name that plant

From: eduardo gomes goncalves <eggon at guarany.cpd.unb.br> on 1997.06.18 at 22:39:45(870) Dear Dewey, Your observation is quite opportune and accurate, but I have some interesting information about such plants. These names are very usefull there overseas, since most material are clones of a few wild collected plants, usually those with most odd characters. Here in Brazil (the center of origin) we have some cultivated material that seems to be different clones from yours and I have seen some rare plants with variegated leaves (and with white margins) bearing the cited appendix, and completely green plants with no appendix. Thus, probably the varietal taxonomy isn't that easy. Now and then I'll listen such species more closely. I also think that even if there is a true var. albo-marginatum, it is only a horticultural name, not valid taxonomically speaking. Best wishes, Eduardo. +More On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Dewey Fisk wrote: > Quandry.... Eduardo.. I have both... or at least I thought I had both X. > atrovierens var. appendiculatum and X. atrovirens var. albo-marginatum.... > > > Now, the quandry... the ....appendic.. has, under the leaf an appendage > that grows along the midrib... and is completely green... all of the leaf > and appendage... now, the albo-marginatum that I have is variegaged and > the base of the leaf has grown together to form a small cup... which forms > on the top of the leaf > > I might like to disagree with you on what Les has... of course, based on > the above and what I have been told.... > Dewey > > Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut > THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE > > > >

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