Re: [Aroid-l] "black" zantedeschias

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The cultivar 'Schwarzwalder' has almost black spathes, but its leaves don't

look like rehmannii, they are sagittate and spotted like in Z. elliottiana.

A photo attached.

Marek

----- Original Message -----

From: "Steve Marak" <samarak@gizmoworks.com>

To: "Aroid list" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:40 AM
Subject: [Aroid-l] "black" zantedeschias

I keep forgetting to ask about this ....

A few weeks ago I was wandering through a local warehouse club (Sam's).

They

had an arrangement of the most impressive black zantedeschias I've ever

seen.

They weren't truly black, of course, but easily the darkest I've ever

seen,

looking black from any distance at all and without any lighter edge. And

in a

lot of the darker varieties I've seen, the spathes haven't been that

large -

looked like lots of rehmannii in them, to me, from the size and shape. But

these had larger spathes with a more open shape. I thought they were

artificial

until I was within a couple of meters, and I had to scratch them to be

sure

they weren't painted or otherwise artifically colored somehow.

The distributor rep happened to be there, and said they were grown either

in

Costa Rica or Columbia - she wasn't sure which, and didn't know any more.

They

got in only enough to do that one arrangement, and I've seen none since.

Anyone know what variety that might be? I've checked out "black callas" on

the

web - lots of hits, but nothing as impressive as this one.

Steve

-- Steve Marak
-- samarak@gizmoworks.com
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