Panama Aroid]]



Dear Steve & Harry:

 

            Sorry that Mike was not able to be more certain of what it was.  I really do believe that it is a Pteromischum and certainly it is close to P. aurantiifolium Schott.

 

Tom

 

From: Michael Grayum
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:41 AM
To: Tom Croat
Subject: RE: [Aroid-l] Panama Aroid

 

Dear Tom,

 

It doesn’t look much like P. hederaceum to me.  Could be just about anything, especially given the nebulous locality data, quite usual with these horticultural sorts (how could somebody not know what country they were in?).  If it is a Pteromischum (which I can’t entirely rule out), it would likely be P. tuerckheimii, especially if it really is from Panama; in Panama, I circumscribed P. tuerckheimii rather broadly to include several aberrant “races” (discussed in the revision), some with broad leaves like those pictured.  Or it could just as easily be a juvenile plant of a non-Pteromischum Philodendron.  Or, alternatively, it could be something like a Monstera!  For example, juvenile plants of M. dissecta can look a lot like the pictured samples (and may even flower precociously in that state).  Can’t say much more.  <MG   

 

From: Tom Croat
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:31 AM
To: Michael Grayum
Subject: FW: [Aroid-l] Panama Aroid

 

Dear Mike:

 

            Please click on the links below for images of a Pteromischum.  See if you might know it.  It is from Panama.

 

From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of ExoticRainforest
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 4:45 PM
To: Discussion of aroids
Subject: [Aroid-l] Panama Aroid

 

I may be way off Harry but it just looks like a juvenile Philodendron hederaceum (micans, scandens, oxycardium) based on the stem, venation and one cataphyll.  Tom would be the best source.  Some have the velvet appearance but many forms don't.  We saw a fairly large semi-adult at the Myriad Center yesterday that had no velutinous appearance and I have several in my atrium that don't show it as well.

Steve


Harry Witmore wrote:

This plant is being passed around the dart frog hobby since it makes such a nice small aroid to grow in terrariums. It was supposedly collected in Panama but I have no other info other than that. If someone had told me it was from Asia I would say it was a species of Pothos. Any ideas on the id?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harry Witmore

Zone 7B NC

Cloud Jungle Epiphytes
www.cloudjungle.com

 

 
 
 
 
 






 
 
 
 
 
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