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  Re: [Aroid-l] blue anthurium
From: Hannon <othonna at gmail.com> on 2011.11.15 at 13:49:18

A friend recently tried to replicate this (with Phalaenopsis) and soaked the roots in blue dye ... and got blue roots! Flowers were unaffected.

On 14 November 2011 19:31, Jason Hernandez <jason.hernandez74@yahoo.com> wrote:
Kalyani, I have not seen the blue anthurium, but I suspect I know what is up, because I _have_ seen "blue" Phalaenopsis orchids.=A0 They were actually just white Phalaenopsis orchids which had been fed some kind of dye to make their flowers appear blue.=A0 On the subsequent blooming, they would of course be back to white again.=A0 I suspect the same thing is happening with "blue" anthurium.

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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:16:43 +0530
From: Kalyani Dias <kalyani.dias@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid-L Digest, Vol 88, Issue 8
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