Re: Foster's self-heading Philodendron species and hybrids

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Dear Eric, 

Philodendron brasiliense is cultivared in Inhotim Botanic Garden (my collections) as in two other places in Brazil (Plantarum Botanic Garden and UCB Hortus). It is also quite common in the main road between Rio de Janeiro and SÃo Paulo.

Best wishes,

Eduardo

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Em 08/12/2010, Ãs 13:54, Eric Schmidt <leu242@yahoo.com> escreveu:

> I'm doing research on Mulford Foster, and plant explorer and breeder who lived in Orlando. He did extensive traveling and plant exploring and collecting to Central and South America from the 1930s until the late 1950s. He is best known for his bromeliad collections and subsequent hybrids but he also collected some self heading Philodendron and made a few hybrids. 2 of the collections he made were unknown species and were just called Fosters Species 1 and Fosters Species 2. Since then I have found Species 1 was P. cymbispathum which is now known as P. brasiliense.
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> One hybrid he made was named P. x fosterianum and is listed as P. bipinnatifidum x P. Foster Species 1
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>  (he also created Phildodendron 'Orlando' which is P. wendlandii x Philodendron Foster Species 2).
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> So my questions are;
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> 1. Is Philodendron x fosterianum still known in cultivation ?
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> 2. Philodendron Fosters Species 2, I haven't been able to find a name for, anyone familiar with it?
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> 3. Is P. brasiliense (cymbispathum) in cultivation?
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> Two sources of information I found is an online article from the Florida State Horticultural Society from 1956 called "Some Notes on Philodendron Hybrids" by Erdman West and H.N. Miller (Florida Agricultural Experiment Station,Gainesville). In it it refers to Foster's 2 unknown species as P. Species No.1 and P. Species No. 2
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> http://www.fshs.org/Proceedings/Password%20Protected/1956%20Vol.%2069/343-347%20(WEST).pdf
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> Also A.B. Graf's "Exotica, Series 3 Edition 9" book has some black and white photos of these Philodendrons
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> Thanks for any help or information anyone might have !
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> Eric Schmidt
> Botanic Records
> Harry P. Leu Gardens
> 1920 N. Forest Ave.
> Orlando, FL.  32803  USA
> eric.schmidt@cityoforlando.net
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