Re: Aroid breeding problems+ Anthurium specific issues

**b* l* <l*@yahoo.com>**

Dear Windy,

Aloha.

I would love the help.  I have been extremely busy lately, traveling and working, so give a call to set up a meeting.  Sundays seem to be the best, but this is not always the case. 

Aloha,

Leland 

--- On Sat, 1/10/09, Windy Aubrey <exotics@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

> From: Windy Aubrey <exotics@hawaii.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid breeding problems+ Anthurium specific issues
> To: "Discussion of aroids" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 11:40 AM
> Aloha Leland,
> 
> I would be happy to come by and see if I could help in
> identifying the 
> unnamed Anthuriums you are growing, and offer some advise
> regarding their 
> pollination.
> 
> Windy
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "brian lee" <lbmkjm@yahoo.com>
> To: "Discussion of aroids"
> <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 9:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid breeding problems+ Anthurium
> specific issues
> 
> 
> > Dear Aroid-l
> >
> > Aloha.
> >
> > I have some large growing Anthurium...no data, so I do
> not know if they 
> > are species or hybrids.  They are beautiful.  I do not
> want to hybridize 
> > them in case they are species, so I have attempted to
> self them.  Does 
> > anyone have any tips for collecting the spare pollen
> and then, is there a 
> > preferred method of storage?  I can barely get any
> pollen from the 
> > spadixes and a goodly amount tends to fall away. 
> These are planted in a 
> > landscape, so I do not have the luxury of being
> indoors in a wind free 
> > environment.  Some of the spadixes seem to set fruit,
> only to have them 
> > abort soon after.  All advice would be gratefully
> received.
> >
> > Aloha,
> >
> > Leland
> >
> >
> > --- On Tue, 1/6/09, mossytrail
> <mossytrail@hctc.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: mossytrail <mossytrail@hctc.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroid breeding problems
> >> To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
> >> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 2:34 PM
> >> > I know this may open a box of worms, but I am
> curious
> >> if
> >> > these plants  are said to evolve from one
> another then
> >> why
> >> > are these barricades even  present? I can see
> this
> >> being
> >> > more difficult for other genus but for 
> different
> >> species
> >> > it seems very odd. You would think more genus
> crosses
> >> > would be more frequent and not as rare as
> they seem to
> >> be
> >> > as well.  Just  my thoughts.
> >> >
> >> That is part of the speciation process.  As long
> as two
> >> forms are still interfertile, someone can argue
> they are
> >> still the same species.  Two subspecies become two
> species
> >> when they lose the ability to interbreed.
> >>
> >> As far as evolution, actually very little of it is
> the
> >> result of hybridization.  Rather the opposite: two
> >> populations become isolated, and accumulate
> different
> >> mutations in the different locations.  This
> acumulation of
> >> mutations eventually makes them different enough
> that they
> >> can no longer interbreed -- at which time we say
> they have
> >> speciated.
> >>
> >> Jason Hernandez
> >> Naturalist-at-Large
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