Re: aquatic spathiphyllum

From: "Eduardo Goncalves" edggon at hotmail.com> on 2002.05.25 at 03:31:41(8876) Hi Ron, Well, my two forms of S. floribundum are truly terrestrial, but I have never collected them in the wild! My plants are from cultivated origin, so I collected them in a plastic pot... Cheers, Eduardo. +More >From: "Ron Iles" >Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org >To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L >Subject: Re: aquatic spathiphyllum >Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:17:24 -0500 (CDT) > >Dear Eduardo! > >Thank you! Your observations were most motivating for my further >experiments! Especially "I have never seen a truly terrestrial >Spathiphyllum in Brazil" WOW! that is REALLY something. Not even species >of Section Amomophyllum which is for me most beautiful? How about the >"velvety" S. floribundum & its close species/sub-species? > >I wonder just how many aroid species can be BETTER cultured emersed, it >might make cultivation so much easier &, wit fishes, exciting? > >The Best > >Ron > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Eduardo Goncalves" >To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" >Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:34 AM >Subject: Re: aquatic spathiphyllum > > >Dear Petra and Ron, > > Just to remember: Spathiphyllum gardneri (from Central Brazil) grows >in >river banks and most plants are usually flooded during the rainy season. I >am not meaning a wet foot, but I am talking about completely submerged >plants (sometimes only infructescences out of the water) for a month or >two. >In Amazonas state (Brazil), as well as in Venezuela, Spathiphyllum >cannifolium grows in full sunlight in swamps, together with Urospatha and >some Montrichardia. I have also collected Spathiphyllum humboldtii growing >submerged up to the middle of its petioles close to French Guiana. The same >situation in a potential new species of Spathiphyllum in Acre (I think Tom >is describing this one) that was growing in a completely swampy area. I >have never collected in Costa Rica or Colombia, but all Brazilian species >of >Spathiphyllum I have seem are helophytes or rheophytes. In fact, I have >never seen a truly terrestrial Spathiphyllum in Brazil! > > Best wishes, > > Eduardo. > > > >From: "Petra Schmidt" > >Reply-To: aroid-l@mobot.org > >To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L > >Subject: aquatic spathiphyllum > >Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:58:09 -0500 (CDT) > > > >Hey Ron...there was a craze here in the USA, well, maybe just the >Midwest, > >with spathiphyllum plants being grown in huge glass jars...the kits were > >sold by Walmart and included colored marbles for the jar, a beta fish and >a > >spathiphyllum...the roots of the spath grew down into the jar, kept the > >fish > >fed and happy and the plant happy...these "arrangements" were seen in > >dental > >offices, doctor's offices, bank lobbies, restaurants, and anywhere else >you > >could imagine; those who had one, loved them... > >I have seen spaths offered in the water garden areas in garden > >centers/nurseries and have seen them growing pretty much as emergent > >aquatics. > >Petra > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Eduardo G. Goncalves Laboratorio de Fitoquimica Depto. de Botanica - IB Universidade de Sao Paulo Caixa Postal 11461 - CEP 05422-970 Sao Paulo - SP - BRAZIL e-mail: edggon@hotmail.com edggon@ib.usp.br Phone: 55 11 3091-7532 FAX : 55 11 3091-7547 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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