[aroid-l] Anthurium polyschistum / Polystichum

From: Piabinha at aol.com on 2002.08.28 at 01:41:10(9303) In a message dated 8/27/2002 8:16:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, hohe@symphony.net.au writes: > as far as I know , it really is 'polyschistum'... I'm guessing (via a +More > dictionary - I'm not a classical scholar) that the name comes from > classical Greek 'polu-' (many) and 'skhistos' (divided), perhaps > referring to the divided leaves. > Meanwhile there is also Polystichum, the genus name of the shield fern / > Christmas fern which you might be familiar with? (I once grew, and > killed, one of those - about the same time as I did the same to the poor > Anth. polyschistum.) g'day, eugene and everybody, yes, i'm familiar with the fern Polystichum and i've killed P. tsus-simense twice already. for some reason i have seen that Anthurium labeled as polystichum but i guess that was mislabelled. i've seen A. polyschistum grown at our local botanical gardens and it's a small anthurium. i'm currently growing one plant that i bought from ecuagenera (ecuador) at the ny orchid show, which has much larger fronds; also they are light green rather than a dark green. could this still be polyschistum or a different species, does anyone know? tsuh yang CHEN in NY

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