[Aroid-l] Varigated ZZ`s and more.

From: mmarcotr at email.smith.edu (Michael Marcotrigiano) on 2007.10.29 at 12:41:49(16625) I have a young variegated ZZ bought on ebay. Just a warning. It came with two variegated young leaves. Since then the next three were green or yellow, not variegated. This plant may be so unstable I'd think twice before forking over big bucks for one. I use to work in a mutagenesis lab and there are nasty chemicals like nitrosomethylurea that cause plastid mutations at high frequency when seed is soaked in the solution. It is also in the top 5 known carcinogens so I'd suggest anyone thinking of getting rich on new variegated plants by using such chemicals, plan on having an oncologist nearby. +More >>> "Julius Boos" 10/28/2007 1:04 PM >>> From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:33:25 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: culture question Dear Ken, Thanks for the info:, from what I`ve heard, there is "something" going = on with this "varigated" kick, all sorts of plants are popping up in a varigated form. A friend hinted to me that there is a process being = used to induce this varigation in MANY plants, just recently I heard of a = couple plants of varigated Philodendron goeldii for sale in Asia, and even in = other plant families way too many varigated cultivars are turning up for it = just to be by chance. Does anyone have any info. on this?? The Best, Julius >>The very expensive Zamioculcas for sale at the IAS show was variegated. That's why it was $100. There were several rooted cuttings in each plastic sleeve and there were two available for sale. -Ken Mosher Julius Boos wrote: > >Dear Adam, > >Thanks for the kind words. Remember, I only suggested (in another posting) > that the Zamioculcas now commonly available because of tissue culture may >be modified and so be larger and more attractive 'selections' than the wild >'mother' plant might be. As far as I know little data is availabe on these >figures/facts. >Like you, I like to have at last one wild-collected plant which the tissue >cultured plants can be compared to! >There seem to be quite a few 'new' cultivars/selections which are said to >have been individuals selected and propagated from batches produced from >tissue culture. Several Alocasias, Philodendrons, Caladiums, etc. come to >mind. >Michael Mahan reports that he saw cuttings of Zamioculcus for sale at the >IAS show for over $100.00, and others across the room, large potted >specimens, for $30.00. I think that we can say that the cheaper ones were >the tissue-cultured specimens, I only wish I knew more about the story >behind the specimens which were being sold for expensive prices! > >The Best, > >Julius _ _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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