Re: Dieffenbachia oerstedii - ID confirmation requested

Title: Re: [Aroid-l] Dieffenbachia oerstedii - ID confirmation requested
Clinton,

Surprised me when I hit return and was on the aroid page and not AERGC. At any rate, from the images you have sent these plants look more like Aglaonema sp. rather than a Dieffenbachia, especially with the fruit production the way it is – but the inflorescence is more Aglaonema like as well. I think that these are old world rather than new world, genus Aglaonema.

Jonathan


On 5/18/15 12:28 PM, "Morse, Clinton" <clinton.morse@uconn.edu> wrote:
Good afternoon, we have a couple of plants in our collections labelled Dieffenbachia oerstedii Schott that have been here for over 3 decades.  Doing a quick google image search, what I see returned mostly looks a bit different from what we have, although this could certainly be common horticultural selections versus true species.



No original locality data or source of original plants.



Would love it if some of the experts could chime in and confirm this ID or dispute it and offer alternate names for this.  Many thanks in advance..






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