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Re: Fenestrated aroids
To: lindsey
Subject: Re: Fenestrated aroids
From: E* G* G* <e*@guarany.cpd.unb.br>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:45:37 -0600
On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Wallace Wells wrote:
> I have owned Monstera deliciosa and recently got M. pitterii. I am
> interested in other fenestrated or 'holed-leaved' aroids and would
> like comment from others who are cultivating the same. I know there
> are Philodendrons with this characteristic.
The only genera of Araceae that I'm aware about the presence of
fenestrations are: Monstera (as you already know), Dracontioides (a water
dweller from Brazil), Raphidophora, Epipremnum and maybe some Anchomanes.
I have never seen a fenestrated Philodendron and I think they don't exist
at all. Some pictorial books of horticulture (e.g. Exotica) usually show a
young Monstera deliciosa identificated as "Philodendron pertusum" and I
think it can confuse a lot of people.
Best wishes,
Eduardo