Aroid Oddities From time to time we get sent pictures of odd aroid infloresences and so on. Well - they're all odd, but some are odder than others. Anyway, here they are: If you have a photo of an odd aroid growth, and would like to contribute to this page, please let Albert Huntington know.

Click on the thumbnails to see larger images. Anthurium Twingo has two spathes. © 2006 by Derek Burch Aglaonema treubii - only one inflorescence occured like this in its lifetime, the rest were normal). © 2006 by Marek Argent A Spathiphyllum cultivar, sometimes it blooms like this. © 2006 by Marek Argent Zantedeschia 'Black Eyed Beauty' - I saw in a shop - only one inflorescence of 5 had a double spathe. © 2006 by Marek Argent A brand new cultivar of Anthurium, unidentified, very small less than 30 cm tall. The inflorescences have a very small spadix or even a lack of it. © 2006 by Marek Argent   © 2006 by Derek Burch   © 2006 by Derek Burch   © 2006 by Derek Burch   © 2006 by Derek Burch This just can't be right... From the IAS show in 2004. © 2006 by Albert Huntington Anthurium "Marie" © 2006 by Enid Offolter/Natural Selections Exotics © 2006 by Michael Pascall Percy Simonsenm, who has done many hybrids within the crystalinum - forgettii group, spotted these double spathe and weird leaf mutants a few years ago. © 2006 by Michael Pascall The purpureospathum plant was imported from MoBoT many years ago by Peter Sargent and has grown these sort of mutant spadix a few times. © 2006 by Michael Pascall This variegated dark leaf plant is very stable, even seedlings have same markings. Plants pictured are growing at Flecker Bot. Gdns.in Cairns. © 2006 by Michael Pascall © 2006 by Michael Pascall The mutant scherzerianums grown at Exotica Plants from seedlings provided by Cape Oasis. © 2006 by Michael Pascall © 2006 by Michael Pascall Anja Blankendaal from VWS-flowerbulbs told me it might be 'Anneke'. They also haven't seen similar to this before... © 2006 by Ágoston János Katrina Smith says the triple spadix photo was taken in 2000 at the Balboa Park Lath House. © 2006 by Katrina Smith Jeff Craddock says 'This newly acquired spathiphyllum has 4 flowers: 2 of which are normal, one which is double, and this last which is triple with an extra long component approaching "leafiness". .' © 2006 by Jeff Craddock Amorphophallus beccarii with some female flowers on the peduncle and with an open spathe. © 2006 by Margret Kiehlmann Anchomanes dalzielii with two spathes. Margret Kiehlmann writes "The 2 plants are in my collection and showed these abnormal inflorescences only one time. The other inflorescences were normal." © 2006 by Margret Kiehlmann Here's a green Anthurium scherzerianum cultivar with two large spathes. © 2006 by Marek Argent