Re: [aroid-l] Xanthosoma "roseum"

Eduardo,

Thank you for that information.  I appologize if no one is interested in this subject, but I appreciate the 
help given.   

Brian,

Here is a photo of X. sagittifolia and others that may be synonomous:

Xanthosoma sagittifolia:
http://www.cannaluver.com/XanthasomaSagitifolia.html?1014623972990 

Xanthosoma robustum:
http://digitalis.mobot.org/mrsid/bin/mosid/mosid.pl?client=021&image=MOA-09123_
001.sid&title=Xanthosoma+robustum&desc=Leaves+and+inflorescence.&tropicos_id=02104679&ssdp=00354543&vtCROAT+
63262

Xanthosoma robustum. To me, the leaves look too collected to be the plant in the black and white photo of X. 
roseum, but this is a younger plant?  A leaf photo:

http://digitalis.mobot.org/mrsid/bin/mosid/mosid.pl?client=021&image=MOA-09101_
001.sid&title=Xanthosoma+robustum&desc=Leaf&tropicos_id=02104679&ssdp=01102321&vtCROAT+78822

Xanthosoma roseum is refered to on one site (though it doesn't obviously say which source this information 
comes from) as 'rosey malanga' and 'elephant ear'.  Xanthosoma sagittifolium in various cultivated edible forms 
is refered to as 'tiquisque blanco and tiquisque colorado'....in Costa Rica.  Eduardo, you mention that the 
true form of X. sattifolium it is also refered to as 'malanga-blanca'.  I'm not sure what all this means but M. 
H. Grayum says this in his description of Xanthosoma (You'll have to scroll down to Xanthosoma where he 
describes X. dealbatum; X. robustum; X. sagittifolium) site follows:

"Xanthosoma robustum is characterized by its erect, aerial stems, glaucous foliage, naked posterior leaf ribs, 
and uniformly greenish inner spathe tube surface. The infls. are the largest of any CR Xanthosoma sp. This sp. 
is most similar to X. undipes (with non-glaucous foliage and usually red spathe tubes) and X. sagittifolium 
(acaulescent and usually with winged posterior ribs). Indeed, the plants treated here as X. robustum may prove 
to represent merely robust individuals of X. sagittifolium."  
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/treat/pistia.html

X robustum and X. sagittifolium may end up being the same plant, but how about X. roseum because he also says:

"Because the taxonomy and nomenclature of the cult. Xanthosoma are in such chaos, a single, variable sp. is 
here recognized, and the oldest available name is applied. Various cultivars are represented in CR, e.g., 
tiquisque blanco and tiquisque colorado. Some names may prove to be incorrecly synonymized here, such as 
Xanthosoma roseum, typified by a Costa Rican collection".

So I guess it's X. sagittifolium that really I'm looking for?  Wasn't the black and white photo taken in Costa 
Rica?  I'd like to know more about the text book that included that photo if anyone knows.  Brian, if you find 
one of these before I do, I'm available to sell to.

Thanks Eduardo, Michael, and Brian,
Susan Cox   






 


1/27/03 3:25:56 PM, "brian williams" <pugturd50@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>Eduardo can you show a pic of a true Xanthosoma Sagittifolia? I would like 
>to see if I have one or what to be looking for. THANKS
>
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