Re: C. 'Fontanesii' id - Pete's id

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Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
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Raleigh, North Carolina  27603  USA
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Tony,

There are a number of new taxa involved in this complex. I have seen some of 
the mss (reviewed a couple) but not all. The refs are:

Colocasia gaoligongensis H.Li & C.L.Long -- Feddes Repert. 110(5-6): 423. 
1999 (IK)
Colocasia gongii C.L.Long & H.Li -- Feddes Repert. 111(7-8): 559. 2000 (IK)
Colocasia lihengiae C.L.Long & K.M.Liu -- in Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. (Taipei) 
42(4): 313 (2001). (IK)
Colocasia tibetensis J.T.Yin -- Ann. Bot. Fenn. 43(1): 53 (-56; fig. 1). 
2006 [13 Mar 2006]
Colocasia yunnanensis C.L.Long & X.Z.Cai -- Ann. Bot. Fenn. 43(2): 139 
(-142; fig. 1). 2006 [26 Apr 2006]

In addition there are a couple of obscure names that need to be accounted 
for:

Colocasia fontanesii Schott -- Oesterr. Bot. Wochenbl. 4: 409. 1854 (IK)
Colocasia formosana Hayata -- Icon. Pl. Formosan. 8: 133. 1919 [25 Mar 1919] 
(IK)
Colocasia konishii Hayata -- Icon. Pl. Formosan. 8: 134. 1919 [25 Mar 1919] 
(IK)
Colocasia kotoensis Hayata -- Icon. Pl. Formosan. 5: 247. 1915 [25 Nov 1915] 
(IK)
Colocasia tonoimo Nakai -- in Ic. Pl. As. Or. iii. 231 (1940). (IK)


Very best
Pete

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Avent" t*@plantdelights.com
To: "Discussion of aroids" aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] C. 'Fontanesii' id - Pete's id


  

Pete:

I checked the flowers on our C. 'Fontanesii' and indeed the spathes do
open quite a bit wider than the C. esculenta cultivars that we grow.
Can you direct us to an article about the C.gaoligongenis/lihengiae
complex.  We found plants in Vietnam that seem to resemble C.
gaoligongensis, but these look nothing like C. 'Fontanesii'.  Please,
tell us more.

Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
9241 Sauls Road
Raleigh, North Carolina  27603  USA
Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F
Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F
USDA Hardiness Zone 7b
email t*@plantdelights.com
website  http://www.plantdelights.com
phone 919 772-4794
fax  919 772-4752
"I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least 
three times" - Avent



Peter Boyce wrote:
    

Tony,

I am pretty sure that the 'Fontanesii' cultivar of C. esculenta is 
somewhere
in the gaoligongenis/lihengiae complex defined by glossy leaves and a
loosely stolonifeous habit combined with a short deep yellow spathe that
opens rather wide.

Very best

Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Avent" t*@plantdelights.com
To: "Discussion of aroids" aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] C. 'Fontanesii' id - Pete's id



      

Peter:

I almost missed your note about C. 'Fontanesii' not being a form of C.
esculenta.  Sorry to open a can of worms, but if it's not C. esculenta,
what is it and why?

Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
9241 Sauls Road
Raleigh, North Carolina  27603  USA
Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F
Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F
USDA Hardiness Zone 7b
email t*@plantdelights.com
website  http://www.plantdelights.com
phone 919 772-4794
fax  919 772-4752
"I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least
three times" - Avent




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