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  Re: [Aroid-l] African aroids?
From: "D. Christopher Rogers" <branchiopod at gmail.com> on 2013.06.25 at 14:14:16
Good catch, David!

To that we can add Arisarum, Ambrosina, Sauromatum, and Biarum. There are some Arisaema species there as well, but I do not know how extensive those species are in cultivation. I suppose we could also add in Pistia, but that seems like cheating . . .

Happy days,
Christopher




On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:05 PM, 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,
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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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