Re: Source for Philodendrons

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
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 -----
From: "Carol Ann Bonner" <cadastra@mindspring.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" <aroid-l@mobot.org>
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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