thanks for the info on this new plant. however, i must disagree with you regarding the size of its leaves. it's actually quite big! they must be at least 5" in width (lord p., you do the math... :-) for everybody else, that's about 12.5 cm). and you are right about the colors, it's a very beautiful plant!
and lord p., no smell on this one either...
>The Ulearum that Tsuh Yang is talking about is new to botany. The
>descriptive paper of this
>new specie is all but finished by Dr. Croat and will be published
>sometime soon in
>'Aroideana.' ?It comes from very deep in the Ecuadorean Amazon Basin and
>is to be named in
>honor of our own Don Burns who recently passed away. This is only the
>second specie of
>Ulearum known and the first known from Ecuador. I ?have been growing
>this plant for ?a year in
>my greenhouse and it has not gone dormant and has had many flowers. It
>is quite easy to grow
>and flowers easily. The flower is not like anything that most have
>known. It has been in bloom
>almost the whole time I have had it. It is a flood plane plant which
>would lead one to believe
>that it might go dormant and come back as the floods come and go, and in
>nature that may be
>true. In a pot, I have not had it go dormant. Needless to say, it is
>terrestrial.
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tsuh yang in nyc
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