From: aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com
[mailto:aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of Marek Argent
Sent: Friday, 3 September, 2010 10:37 AM
To: discussion of aroids
Subject: [Aroid-l] Fw: Homalomena or ...?
Dear
Friends,
I
bought an aroid in a pet shop as an aquarium plant.
I
think it is a species of Homalomena or something from Schismatoglottideae from
SE Asia.
The
leaves are stiff, dry in touch, like the leaves of Aglaonema.
The
petioles are reddish at the base (but not always).
The
leaf blades are 12-17 cm long on 11-14 cm long petioles.
It
produces 2 inflorescences from a node. They are 3 cm tall on 4 cm long
peduncles.
When
I bought it, 3 days ago, all the spathes were tightly wrapping the
inflorescence.
Today
one of them opened, I didn't notice when, but it didn't unroll like most
aroids.
I
found it detached from the peduncle, a few cm away.
The
inflorescence was rotten at the base, so it fell off as I touched it.
The
female flowers are about 1mm tall x 0.6 mm wide. There are no pistillodes
or staminodes.
I
opened also the second inflorescence,
but
now I have no possibility to transfer the new photos.
The
spathe is very thick, the female flowers are green
and
there is an incredible amount of wet pollen on the male flowers.
I
may send the photos tomorrow.
It
seems the plant was brutally cut off by a "collector",
because there
are no roots at all.
I
hope it will recover in my small greenhouse.
The
plant looks almost identically as the one that was identified as Homalomena
insignis.
href="http://www.wschowa.com/abrimaal/araceum/homalomena/insignis.htm">http://www.wschowa.com/abrimaal/araceum/homalomena/insignis.htm
I
managed to rescue it, but it is still very small. This one is more robust.
(I
attach 3 photos, these with dates as filenames are Hom. insignis,
these
beginning from 100 are photos of the new plant)
Very
Best,
Marek
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