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

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Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
Juniper Level Botanic Garden
9241 Sauls Road
Raleigh, North Carolina  27603  USA
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Tony,

 

I have seen rather a few similar but different things labeled as Illustris. But my feeling is that this is C. fallax (including C. bicolor and C. heterochroma).

 

Pete

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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:42 AM

Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] C. 'Fontanesii' id - Pete's id

Pete:

Before I delve into what I'm sure is some great bedtime reading, do you remember where Colocasia 'Illustris' landed.  This one never seemed to quite fit comfortably into C. esculenta.

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,

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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