Re: [Aroid-l] P. adamantinum, P. saxicolum.

From: Tom philofan at philodendron.org> on 2005.03.03 at 03:21:04(12752) Sounds like a great plant find and story, Eric. Like that old saying, "One man's garbage, another man's treasure" couldn't be more true. Here is another link with a photo and description of it: http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/59574/index.html Monocromatico (the poster) describes it as: "This is a native plant from the southeastern brazilian coastal areas, specially around Rio de Janeiro. The specimen used to describe the species came from the Corcovado hill, where the statue of Jesus Christ is erected, so that?s why the specific name "corcovadensis", meaning "from Corcovado". The shiny bright green leaves stick out in my mind for this plant. Are there any current commercial sources for it? -Tom Vincze +More One that we are growing is Philodendron corcovadense. I believe it is native to southern Brazil. I had seen this growing in a yard of a house near Leu Gardens for 20 years. It is a self-header that grows 2-3ft tall and survived the 20F freeze in 12/89. Some stems froze back, some were only defoliated. It is like a small version of P. bipinnatifidum but with entire leaves. It even has that odor that P. bipinnatifidum has when a leaf is cut or broke off. I drove by that house one day and it was being renovated. The Philos were in a pile in the driveway. I stopped and asked if I could have them and they said yes. I "rescued" them and planted them out at Leu Gardens. I have never seen them for sale, hopefully they can get into tissue culture. Here is a link to a photo; http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/leuaroid/detail?.dir£ee&.dnm£f1.jpg&.src=ph Eric Schmidt Botanic Records Harry P. Leu Gardens 1920 N. Forest Ave. Orlando, FL. 32803 USA USDA Zone 9b eric.schmidt@cityoforlando.net ph. # (407)-246-3749 fax # (407)-246-2849 www.leugardens.org --- Julius Boos wrote: Dear Friends, Well, after a miserable failure to obtain these and other 'smaller' self-heading species of Philodendron by ordering seed from the S. American source ( as far as I can determine, most if not all of the seeds sold as being these species have grown to be P. 'selloum'), I am putting out a call to all you members, lurkers, Botanical garden growers, etc. in an attampt to locate specimens of these and any other 'minature'/smaller species or vars. of the arborescent / "self heading" Philodendrons. I have seen P. saxicolum 'in the flesh', also the TRUE minature P. selloum, and so am very interested in seeing a P. adamantinum, if there is any garden or individual out there with specimens of this or the other species mentioned, or one that I do not already know about, please contact me on my e-mail at --- ju-bo@msn.com< Thanks, and good growing! Julius Boos, WPB, Florida. _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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