Re: Spathiphyllum

Geoff/Toby

The plant you describe, Spathiphyllum floribundum, was sold by 
the now-defunct nursery Anmore Exotics (now Wyld Court 
Rainforest - a private tropical plant collection) at Hamstead 
Norreys, near Reading in Berkshire, UK.

Spathiphyllum floribundum periodically appears in the trade in the 
UK but is not anywhere so easy to grow as the 'wallisii/Mauna Loa' 
types and thus seldom remains in cult. for long.

Two other species are available (sorry if you've got these and have 
said so, Toby, I've not been following all of this discussion): 
Sainsbury Homebase (for the benefit of US aroid-l folks this is a 
chain D.I.Y. supermarket here in the UK) is selling S. 
coclearispathum at some of its outlets for 20 quid or so and several 
aquarist stores are selling Spathiphyllum cannifolium or S. 
commutatum (probably the latter) as a fishtank decorative under 
the name 'Kelantan Sword'. Next time you're at Kew, Toby, take a 
look the spathiphyllums in the Victoria Tank in the Princess of 
Wales Conservatory, they are plants I got as 'Kelantan Sword' from 
an aquarist near Heathrow.

Pete

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