In bloom,have a seed pod already waiting to ripen on this plant,so I was surprised to see another bloom so quickly.
I don't see in pollen on the flower,don't know if I'm to soon or already to late,but would this be able to cross pollinate with a Xanthosoma,or alocasia?
Zero chance on crossing Anthurium with either Xanthosoma or Alocasia. Only in a transgenic lab could that be even a remote possibility. Pollen doesn't come out on Anthurium inflorescences until the entire spadix is no longer receptive to pollen. If you have other birdnest type Anthuriums, you could cross them with this one if one of them has pollen already and this one shows little droplets on the pistil tips (usually in the morning).
LariAnn
Batting zero all around today!!!!
Thanks
I have some seedlings from a large birdnest anthurium plant that I have no idea what it may have crossed with. It is the only one that ever produced any seeds that grew. And they just fell on the ground and sprouted. The seedlings are about a year old now.
It could have been polllinated by one of any number of other anthuriums that grow in close proximity. It will be interesting to see that they turn into. I think I have 19 of them.
I don;t know what the parent plant is. I posted photos for ID on another site heavy with aroid folks but they couldn;t say for certain. Do you mind if I post a photo here? I don;t want to hijack your thread
No go right a head,the more the merry,maybe someone might be able to tell what you have,I had pollen this morning like Lari ann said and I crossed pollinated a few things,just in case I get lucky!
Thanks Tropicman
Here is a link to the photo of the plant that produced the seed:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/Bihai/aroids/bnest.jpg
Vert similar to my Hookerii,I believe they call that a birdnest anthurium.
This could be it!
Anthurium cruentum
http://www.tropiflora.com/creport/cr15-2/p5.html
There are actually several plants that it "could be" according to my South American aroid buddies. Even with the bloom, they were unable to say if it was a species on its own, or a hybrid, because Anthuriums tend to cross pollinate with each other pretty easily according to those guys, so you never know. I'll post a photo of the seedlings.
The anthuriums that were close enough in proximity to have cross pollinated with the big birdnest were itself (duh), "Nikki", an andreanum that gets HUGE red/orange flowers, pedatoradiautm, gracile, and radicans.
Of course, if a bug was flying around the greenhouse, making the rounds, it could have stopped on any one of a few dozen anthuriums (reflexinervium, willifordii, jenmanii, superbum, dresslerii, crystalinum, etc etc etc) that bloom regularly and picked up some pollen.
The fact that the leaves are way out on those wide stolon-like stems says perhaps gracile to me.
I have grown gracile from seed that it selfed with and it has the same leaves, but instead of a kind of wide paddle shape it has longer more narrow spear shaped leaves.
At a glance doesn't seem to look much like the mother plant at all,but still to early to tell.
My birdnest hookerii has a big seed pod,and there wasn't another anthuium in the same room,don't know it if pollinated itself or not,not even sure the seeds will be viable.
I just through of one more plant that could have donated pollen to this effort, its much closer in proximity to the parent that produced the seeds than gracile was...A. pendulafolia.
I don't know that one,so I did a google search they didn't have info on it,do you?
Large grower, leaves can be 6+ ft. I have a huge years old plant, the one in the photo
Huge leaf,is that similar to a king A.?
I'd die for the croton!!!!
No its not at all similar to Anthurium veitchii, the "King" Anthurium, which has very pleated leaves.
I am about to trim that croton, it's Mrs. Iceton, if you have something to trade
King Anthurium:
Yes I see a lot different.
No I have iceton,but just a small one so far!
Maybe a foot tall!
