From: "Peter Boyce" <botanist at malesiana.com> on 2007.03.04 at 21:59:37(15389)
Dear Julius,
Thank you for your very kind words.
If I may be permitted to answer on behalf of all us so fortunate as to be in
the position to have someone pay us to pursue our hobby AND be allowed to be
considered as professionals, and say that it is very much a two way process.
We gain enormously (and take great pleasure) from being included among the
ranks of the plant hobbyists; without the folks that grow, and grow so
expertly, many of the plants that we study we, as professionals, would be
very much the poorer in terms of knowledge and vitally, in terms of our
circle of friends.
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Thanks, Pete
Kuching
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Sent : Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:31 PM
To : aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Subject : RE: [Aroid-l] Philodendron 'Santa Leopoldina'
Dear Tom, Eduardo, Pete, Alistair, Wilbert, etc.,
I think it fitting that on behalf of all the members of aroid-l, that we
just say a simple word of thanks to all the professionals, a few of whom I
have mentioned above (forgive me those of you who I have not mentioned!)
who take time from their busy lives and professional duties to share some
of their hard-learned knowledge with us who do this 'plant thing' just as
hobby.
I can only hope that all of us 'out there' recognize what a valuable
resource aroid-l provides to all of us who seek information on this group
of plants we so love, to have persons of this caliber literally at our
fingertips to respond where possible to our questions!
Thanks again, friends.
Julius
WPB, FLORIDA
Dear Ted,
We visited Robert Kautsky, the original collector of the nomenclatural
type of P. spiritus-sancti. He gave the plant George Bunting described.
We observed the cultivated specimen he still keeps on his farm (from which
dry specimens were prepared) and we spotted similar material around. We
have been collecting in Espirito Santo state for years and we could only
found this species in Kautsky's farm. Obviously we used classic taxonomic
characters to ID it, including sections on flowers. That was not that hard
because there is no other species that could be REALLY confused with P.
spiritus-sancti, although you can confuse many species under the popular
"loose" definition of "Santa Leopoldina". Right now we are using clones
of the type specimen to make a profile based on the "DNA barcode" concept,
in order to make identifications of P. spiritus-sancti more reliable.
Unfortunately, the "real" identity of P. "Santa Leopoldina" will be hard
to find out, mainly because you can't extract DNA from an horticultural
legend!
Very best wishes,
Eduardo.
Dr. Eduardo G. Goncalves
Universidade Catolica de Brasilia
Curso de Ciencias Biologicas
Sala M-206, QS 7, Lote 1, EPTC
CEP 72030-170, Taguatinga - DF, BRAZIL.
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To: Discussion of aroids
Subject: [Aroid-l] Philodendron 'Santa Leopoldina'
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:33:15 -0500
All,
OK. So how reliable are the reports of the remaining P. spiritu-sancti in
the wild? What distinguishing marks should we be looking for? I have been
looking at the pictures in the postings and they vary quite a bit. How do
I know a real one when I see it? On what basis do the searchers in Brazil
make their determinations? Maybe the only plants left are examples of one
or another of the sham plants.
Ted.<<
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