Re: Source for Philodendrons

From: "Road Runner" chammer at cfl.rr.com> on 2001.08.11 at 20:23:56(7229) Hello Carol Ann. Russ in central Fla here, member of the Aroid Society discussion group. I had your email from the end of May still saved on my computer, and wondered if you had any luck in obtaining the Syngonium you wanted. I assume the 'highly dissected' form you requested would simply be a fully mature tip cutting. You probably already know this: After climbing a tree or post to maturity, leaves go from small and entire, to larger and dissected 3, 5, 7, 9 lobes. If the tip becomes disengaged from the surface it will start to go back to the immature, entire leaf form with much more distance between nodes; a 'runner' if you will, until it +More finds another surface to climb. Philodendrons change form when they climb also, some develop huge leaves, also the common yellow variegated 'Pothos'. At any rate, I can send you any number of this form of S. podophyllum. I grows like a weed on my mother's lattice privacy fence in Cocoa Beach, and can be quite invasive here. I have a large collection of rare Aroids, mostly Philodendron, Syngonium, Monstera, Alocasia, Aglaonema, etc. I think the white variegated form of S. podophyllum would be more decorative for your greenhouse, and it will become dissected also, but in a much smaller form that the all green type, which can get leaves a foot or more across. I could send this in immature form also, or others if you're interested. Good growing, Russ. ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 11:33 PM Subject: Source for Philodendrons > Although I haven't seen them discussed here recently, unless I am sadly > mistaken, Philodendron is still a genus within the Aroid family (unlike > Acorus which is listed in my copy of the Exotic Plant Manual but had been > disowned by time of the D. Brown book.) I'm interested in obtaining one of > the highly dissected Philodendrons and maybe one of the more dissected (or > would that be trisected?) Syngoniums for my new greenhouse addition. I > checked a lot of the links on the IAS website, but I didn't find a source. > Any suggestions? Private replies are welcome in case someone doesn't want > to show public favoritism to one vendor over another. > > Carol Ann > Nashville > >

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