What have you got in foliage? - Page 51

JoshH · #**501** (**permalink**) 03-25-2009, 01:33 AM

Cool Lycopodium too!

Frogtofall · #**502** (**permalink**) 03-25-2009, 01:34 AM

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Originally Posted by bobberly1

Antone, I love the botanical input you and Jason post on this forum. Those berries in the last pic are awesome! Do you often sell cuttings of your plants?

Glad you enjoy! I always like to show pics of my plants in hopes that someone will see something that maybe they didn't know existed. Its always nice to open someone's eyes.

I do sell cuttings. Thats pretty much why I started doing the, "Collector's Corner" thing every now and then. Keep any eye out!

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Originally Posted by JoshH

Dude, where are you finding all of those?! They're awesome, do you know where they are from?

I guess I have just made some good plant friends over the last few years. If you like the epi-blueberries and are in the NY city area at any point, I hear that NYBG has the best collection of these anywhere. I plan to get there and see it for myself one of these days.

All of these species I am pretty sure are from South America (Peru and Ecuador I think although I have a feeling that the S. cordifolium may come from Costa Rica). It is my understanding that they are, for the most part, highland species. They only grow for me when winter comes. I think the summers are just too hot even with the cooling on the greenhouse running.

Frogtofall · #**503** (**permalink**) 03-25-2009, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by frogparty

what kind of berry production do you get from them? The foliage is beautiful. Too big for a viv?

So far for me, the only one to produce berries is the S. cordifolium. They taste sorta like bland watermelon. Some species taste AMAZING (like blueberries and blackberries of course but there are others!) while some are actually poisonous.

I had 2 other species of Disterigma but they withered away in the heat. Didn't get the cooling installed in time...

bussardnr · #**504** (**permalink**) 03-25-2009, 02:10 AM

I love tasty berrys, do you have any others?

Frogtofall · #**505** (**permalink**) 03-25-2009, 02:31 AM

Just the Ceratostemma rauhii and a Macleania that Harry gave me. The other 3 or so I killed.

harrywitmore · #**506** (**permalink**) 03-25-2009, 11:44 AM

Antone, yours look awesome! Mine are growing but look nothing like yours.

There were many of these epi-blueberries in the Chiriqui Panama Highlands but the only one I saw flowering was a Macleania high in the trees.

bussardnr · #**507** (**permalink**) 04-07-2009, 01:14 AM

Heres a few begonias
*large pic*
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...nr/begonia.jpg

*GREASER* · #**508** (**permalink**) 04-07-2009, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by harrywitmore

Antone, yours look awesome! Mine are growing but look nothing like yours.

There were many of these epi-blueberries in the Chiriqui Panama Highlands but the only one I saw flowering was a Macleania high in the trees.

I want to go to the Chiriqui and look for arboreus! I will look out for these plants when if I make it to that region. I imagine you were in the cloud forests there? Thats where there are supposed to be some arboreus.

*GREASER* · #**509** (**permalink**) 04-07-2009, 04:24 AM

I have one of these but I am not sure what one. I have two cuttings that are doing well that i did not expect to root but they did. I placed them on sphagnum and they put out little roots!

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Originally Posted by Frogtofall

Thought I'd show some of the epi-blueberries. They were just looking so nice today!

Sphyrospermum buxiifolium cf.

Sphyrospermum cordifolium (adorned in berries)

harrywitmore · #**510** (**permalink**) 04-07-2009, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by *GREASER*

I want to go to the Chiriqui and look for arboreus! I will look out for these plants when if I make it to that region. I imagine you were in the cloud forests there? Thats where there are supposed to be some arboreus.

Yes, we were in La Amistatd Boisphere Reserve.