Fw: [aroid-l] New cultivated Philodendron.

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at msn.com> on 2003.01.10 at 10:22:24(9804) ----- Original Message ----- To: Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [aroid-l] New cultivated Philodendron. Dear Paul, There are no NATURALLY occuring Philodendrons in Australia, but many years ago a couple that lived in Australia, the Winterbourns, claimed that a single plant of a VERY distinctive Philodendron grew amongst a batch of P. bipinn. ('selloum') seed, this single plant, with the 'help' of tissue culture, has become perhaps the best-selling Aroid produced by tissue culture, it is marketed as Philodendron Xanadu. There should be an article in the next Aroideana about this plant, look out for it folks! Good Growing, Julius +More >>>is several years old. .If anyone has or can get information from Twyford >labs about the origin of the new Philodendron 'Showboat', is it another >'find' from somewhere beside Australia, or is it just an 'outtake' on >Xanadu, perhaps selected because of the slight differences seen from the >millions of tissue cultured plants of Xanadu?? Any information from >anyone with a contact at Twyford`s will be greatly appreciated. >>>Julius, Have some of the philodendrons come from Australia? I am intrigued by your reference to being "somewhere beside Australia" as I didn't realise that some originated from here. I really don't know a great deal about the tropical aroids, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to ask. Thanks in anticipation. Cheers. Paul Tyerman Canberra, Australia. USDA equivalent - Zone 8/9 mailto:ptyerman@ozemail.com.au Growing.... Galanthus, Erythroniums, Fritillarias, Cyclamen, Crocus, Cyrtanthus, Liliums, Hellebores, Aroids, Irises plus just about anything else that doesn't move!!!!!

Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.