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| Never thought I'd get a Philodendron for its flowers. |
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- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Sun, Mar 3, 13 at 9:34
| Of course, the tag just said "Philodendron". I guess I'll find a name for it eventually. They had a number of them there but this was the only one flowering. |
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| Very beautiful! Be sure to get rid of that twisty tie before it girdles the stem. |
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- Posted by meyermike_1micha 5 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 3, 13 at 13:54
| Oh so beautiful!!!! Now I have one of those and never knew it could flower like that. Very nice. Mike |
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| Hi i rarely have flowers on my phils but always white . Be sure and tell us the speies?? gary |
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- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Sun, Mar 3, 13 at 20:19
| Rhizo_1, they put a small stake in to stop the plant from flopping but I intend to put it up against a tree where it can flop all it likes. Don't think it's a climber, probably more a sprawler but that's okay. Mike, Philos aren't usually collected for their flowers, often you'll never see them. But this one's certainly different. Gary, I'll certainly try to find out what exactly it is. Possibly a hybrid, maybe cultivar of some sort. But they all start off with a species somewhere behind them. My Philos don't flower much, haven't noticed any flowers on my P. erubescens, let alone red ones even though there's a lot of red in the plant. |
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- Posted by asarumgreenpanda z6 MA (My Page) on Mon, Mar 4, 13 at 19:42
| Wow! It's like a Philo dressed in an obake-type Anthurium costume. That is stunning. I'm looking forward to photos of it climbing a tree, when you get it to that point. Amanda |
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| Hi interesting that it would flower at such a small size. Only ones that flower regularly for me is P sellourm. certainly nothing to shout about anyway lol Good luck with it that's a beauty gary |
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| It looks a bit like a Calla Lily to me. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Wed, Mar 6, 13 at 16:50
| I knew I would see a cool plant from Tropic - cuz I thought he had them all already. That's soo pretty! Similar to flowers I spotted on a giant hanging plant at a garden center in January. Your plants' flowers are much more intense though. I would have succumbed to its' beauty too if I saw a plant like that for sale (that I could afford.) It's not the best angle, but it was over my head. |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Wed, Mar 6, 13 at 16:53
| The whole thing, obviously I can't afford that, should they be willing to part with it. The blooming part looks so different, but they insisted it was all one plant. I did buy a propagated piece of the dangling, variegated part. Maybe the plain green blooming section is a reversion. |
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- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Wed, Mar 6, 13 at 20:13
| Amanda, those colours are certainly more like Anthurium than Philodendron. Maybe its a transgeneric cross, LOL. Gary, it could be a cutting from an already older plant, or maybe flowering was chemically induced. Nurseries have a lot of tricks up their sleeves to trap gullible people like me that have more money than brains. (Believe me, I have very little money, so makes me an easy target, LOL.) But this one was the only one flowering out of all the rest of the same plants. Maybe other flowering ones had been bought up. I've got a couple of small P. bipinnatifidum (selloum) but they just don't do well here, wrong climate. Marric, it's the same with Callas, they won't grow here either, wrong climate. Purple, that does look very much like mine. Your colours didn't wash out in the photo? I sometimes get that, when for some reason my camera reproduces colours very much paler than what's real. I'd say there are definitely 2 different plants in your photo. The smaller leaf one looks like Philodendron "Pink Princess". I have one of those too, variegation is variable with occasional leaves being entirely green. We had a lot of rain the past few days and I left the Philo out in it. It's response was to close up the spathe and even though the sun's been out a couple of days now the spathe is still closed. Not withering or anything. It actually looks new, as though it has never opened yet. It's in shade, bright light, not direct sun. |
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| Hi i see a lot of "Guilding the lily" common practice in the large chain nureries.. Particularly phal orchids they have brilliant purples. neon orange and yellows some even have glitter glued to the petals. lolI recently run accross a Spathiphyllum that had pink flowers . Couldn't determine if it was dyed but couldn't find any cultivars with other than white flowers. Was going to buy it anyway but was gone when I returned lol. If dyed it was a good job!! There are a gazillion cultivars of this plant ,why not a pink?? gary |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Thu, Mar 7, 13 at 9:35
| Tropic, I get what you're saying about pics, but that color is pretty accurate in the top pic from what I could see of the flower above my head. Agreed, the 2nd pic is a little strange from the bright light behind. Hope they have this plant out again when I go back. OMG - what if somebody bought it!? No, not possible...! Is your pretty new Philo hardy at your location? I'm assuming that you mean permanently in the ground when you said "against a tree" above. Hope you'll post some updates in the future! |
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