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  Re: [Aroid-l] African aroids?
From: Peter Boyce <phymatarum at gmail.com> on 2013.06.25 at 03:23:40
David,

If we're stretching Africa then should include Arisarum vulgare, A. simorrhinum, Eminium spiculatum, and Biarum olivieri.

Being tediously pedantic, the Moroccan Arum hygrophilum is a separate species (as yet unpublished: Arum maurum (Braun-Blanq. & Maire) comb. ined.

P.

On 25 June 2013 09:05, DAVID LEEDY <djleedy@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Jason,

As part of Africa is on the Mediterranean, I would think that Arum occurring in Morocco (Arum hygrophillum Boiss &=A0 Arum italicum Miller) and Libya (Arum cyrenaicum Hruby) might be included in your list of African aroids.=A0

David Leedy

From: Jason Hernandez <jason.hernandez74@yahoo.com>
To: "aroid-l@gizmoworks.com" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
Sent: Mon, June 24, 2013 10:48:36 AM
Subject: [Aroid-l] African aroids?

Hello again, fellow aroiders,
=A0
I have been wondering today about African aroids.=A0 Those of us who grow tropical aroids will be aware of the genera of the American tropics, i.e. Caladium, Xanthosoma, Philodendron, Anthurium, Monstera, Spathiphyllum, Dieffenbachia, et al.; and the Southeast Asian genera, Epipremnum, Aglaonema, Colocasia, Alocasia, Cyrtosperma, and most of the Amorphs.=A0 But Africa seems almost like the Lost Continent.=A0 Other than Zantedeschia and some of the Amorphs, what African genera are widely known in cultivation?=A0 The biodiversity of Africa has long fascinated me, but it seems like the most difficult continent to find out=A0much about.=A0 Who here grows African aroids besides Zantedeschia and Amorphs?
=A0
Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large

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