What have you got in foliage? - Page 39

Corpus Callosum · #**381** (**permalink**) 12-11-2008, 10:23 PM

Mine put out propagules before it even put out roots, this one loves the vivarium.

candm519 · #**382** (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 05:15 PM

Propagules. So that's what you call those things! I thought they were rhizomes.
Here's one now.

harrywitmore · #**383** (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 07:59 PM

The little 'bulbils' are the propagules and I think the thing they are attached to is a stolon but I'm not sure about that. They can be used to produce more plants. There's an Aroid that does this same thing. It's Remusatia vivipara. You can just remove the propagules and place them on the top of the soil and they produce tubers. It's an epiphytic plant that looks like a Colocasia ('Elephant Ear'). Too bad it get's huge fast.

Frogtofall · #**384** (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 10:15 PM

Not sure if this plant has been posted but I took a quick snap of it with the cell phone. I think if done correctly, this would be a kick ass viv plant...

Dischidia major

skylsdale · #**385** (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 11:14 PM

Antone, how do the different leaf shapes play out on that one: are the longer ones more mature leaves or just different growth forms?

Frogtofall · #**386** (**permalink**) 12-12-2008, 11:40 PM

This species is 1 of 3 in the genus Dischidia that have dimorphic foliage. These 3 species are myrmecophytes (live in symbiosis with ants) and the bullate foliage provide homes for ants among other things.

I actually wrote a small article about the 3 species for an online magazine called, Stemma. You can download the latest issue from here...

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They are all free. Enjoy!

harrywitmore · #**387** (**permalink**) 12-13-2008, 04:02 PM

Begonia species (elaeagnifolia) - Not sure who all has this Begonia but I believe it is elaeagnifolia but I'm not positive. It's a nice little scandent species though.

candm519 · #**388** (**permalink**) 12-13-2008, 04:29 PM

I like that one, Harry. I don't think Begonia would be my first guess. Well, I don't really have a first guess, or a second one either.

harrywitmore · #**389** (**permalink**) 12-13-2008, 04:50 PM

It was being passed around as an Impatiens for a while and also looks very similar to a Peperomia. Emerging leaves look allot more like Begonias than the mature ones. I found a picture on the web that looks almost identical. Now all I need to do is see a flower.

harrywitmore · #**390** (**permalink**) 12-13-2008, 04:58 PM

Well here you go. Ben's Jungle sells it as schultzei which is a synonym of elaeagnifolia.

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