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lorax
03-19-2009, 08:04 PM
Here's a few to start you off. I prefer to leave them in the forest for the most part, but I do take one home occasionally.

This first one is actually a new species I discovered. So far it's only know in collection - it's on my list of plants to hunt for in the wild. Those leaf blades are 6'3" long.
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Aroids%20A%20Go-Go/A_angamaracum_Leaf.jpg

These ones are normally epilythic, but in the walnut forests they've adapted to grow on the trunks of the trees, to avoid the phytosuppression thing.
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Aroids%20A%20Go-Go/DSCN9533.jpg

And here's a series from Mindo. I have no idea what they are, but aren't they purdy?

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Aroids%20A%20Go-Go/DSCN8529.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Aroids%20A%20Go-Go/DSCN8548.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Aroids%20A%20Go-Go/DSCN8595.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Aroids%20A%20Go-Go/DSCN8653.jpg

A. versicolor
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Aroids%20A%20Go-Go/DSCN8545.jpg

A. trilobatum - in seed, what a find! Too bad it was in a tree full of ants.
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Aroids%20A%20Go-Go/DSCN8565.jpg


These are, with the exception of the new speces, from the forests around Mindo. I'll post some of the Pastaza ones later - they're very different.

Bob
03-19-2009, 08:18 PM
That new species is awsome. You should get a patent and have Scot clone a few thousand! Looks like tough jungle to get through. Do you have a machete at your side at all times?

island cassie
03-19-2009, 08:34 PM
Lorax - great work and wonderful pics - thanks for all of that scolarly (sp) input! That is the sort of contribution I would like to make - but too dumb really!

CookieCows
03-19-2009, 09:35 PM
What COOL plants!!!! I've looked at other plant photos you've taken also. You do such great work. It would be so fun to spend a day with you!

lorax
03-19-2009, 11:35 PM
Looks like tough jungle to get through. Do you have a machete at your side at all times?

I do - I have a really nice Colombian steel 1-1/2 footer that holds a good edge. However, I rarely have to use it except in secondary forest - primary forest is remarkably open under the canopy.

And I have to laugh, really, since those pictures were taken into the jungle from a fresh road cut! I didn't have to hack a single thing - the tractor had done that work for me. Deep jungle photos (and really, deep jungle itself) are remarkable for a lack of that kind of tangling at ground level.

Tog Tan
03-20-2009, 04:31 AM
Great stuff Beth. as far as I know, what I just saw ain't in the black market yet. You are sitting on a gold mine. I think the Ecuadorian spp are the least known in cultivation. So far the most desirable here is the Anthurium regale from Peru. The 2nd pix's plant, the growth habit is like a Philodendron, is that what it is? Any more pix?
Many thanks. :ha:

Bananaman88
03-20-2009, 07:16 AM
Don't ever mess with a woman that carries a machete!!!

lorax
03-20-2009, 07:22 AM
The 2nd pix's plant, the growth habit is like a Philodendron, is that what it is? Any more pix?
Many thanks. :ha:

Nope - that's a formerly epilithic Anthurium that has adapted to epiphytic behaviour to escape being poisoned by the walnut trees that grow in the same area. The inflorescence is definitely Anthurium, and the lower specimens I inspected have the collective vein associated with that genus as well. That habit is actually pretty typical of the scandent Ecuadorean Anthuriums.

lorax
03-20-2009, 08:11 AM
Here are some trilobate Anthuriums from the Pastaza area.

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/AnthTrilob6.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/AnthTrilob5.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/AnthTrilob3.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/AnthMultilob.jpg

A. rotundatum
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/AnthRotundatum.jpg

Treebound strap-leaf Anthuriums
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/TreeShot2.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/TreeShot3.jpg

Similar to what is found in Mindo
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Anth1.jpg

A. giganteum - leaf blades about 5'
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/AnthGiganteum.jpg

And this one's tiny - leaves about 5"
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/AnthLongblade2.jpg

Here is the scenery of the area where I took those photos. The volcano is active Volcan Sangay. The forests are all primary old-growth Mahogany.
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/Sangay.jpg

lorax
03-20-2009, 08:15 AM
Don't ever mess with a woman that carries a machete!!!

ROFLMFAO. I couldn't bring my wakizashi with me when I moved due to weapons restrictions in EC - I've always preffered a short sword for brush clearing! I had to relearn all sorts of techniques in order to use a machete well - even with my "ladies" machete it's so blinkin' heavy! Ah well. Better shoulder definition is on the good side of that.

Bob
03-20-2009, 08:42 AM
I especially like the pic with the volcano in the background. I kind of pictured Ecuador like that when you posted a while back about varying mixed banana culture there in different areas and the photo confirms it. In a way it reminds me of Washington state here with snow capped volcanic areas tapering down to a coastal (if temperate) rain forest.

lorax
03-20-2009, 09:19 AM
That's the same way our western slopes work - snowcapped volcanoes that taper down into tropical wet forest and coastal salt forest, and then the ocean. The eastern slopes go snowcapped volcanoes, active volcanoes without snow, transitional cloud forest, Upper Amazon jungle, Lower Amazon jungle.

Tog Tan
03-20-2009, 09:30 AM
Thanks Beth, if my Thai friends see the pix,the way to spell this genus is ANTHURIUM$! :ha: Lovely stuff which I didn't know existed cos no one has been collecting in your place. Keep us (Basically me) posted of new stuff. Thanks again.
Then again however rare and unknown they are, only I have the 3ft Druiting Dwraf. Wana trade? Extremely rare....

lorax
03-20-2009, 09:32 AM
Lol, not thanks... I have my own share of 3ft Druitign Dwraf NOIDS, but most of mine are either Ortios or Platnaians, I think - I don't need Cadenvishes, they're the nabana of currecny down here.

islaverde
04-22-2009, 12:44 AM
Hi

I'm new here. Got carried here following a drift from Anthuriums.

i think the first anthurium looks like cupuslispathum?

Yes Ecuador has an amazing array of these plants. Here is a photo I took of a longish type from the forests leading to BellaVista (near Mindo)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/motane/accb78a8.jpg

lorax
04-22-2009, 08:14 AM
It's not cupulispathum, though. Dr. Tom Croat of the MOBOT has confirmed that it's a new species. If anybody knows, he would.

That longblade one is dirt common in the Bellavista area. When were you in Ecuador?

islaverde
04-22-2009, 10:00 AM
It's not cupulispathum, though. Dr. Tom Croat of the MOBOT has confirmed that it's a new species. If anybody knows, he would.

That longblade one is dirt common in the Bellavista area. When were you in Ecuador?

yes, longblade seems to grow like a weed along road ditches. The biggies seem to grow deep in the shade though. I was in Ecuador in 2005.

lorax
04-22-2009, 10:12 AM
Whereabouts? Just in the Northern-end east-slope forests?

Tog Tan
04-22-2009, 10:16 AM
Whereabouts? Just in the Northern-end east-slope forests?

Must have topographic co-ordinates for exact location....:ha::ha::ha:

island cassie
04-22-2009, 06:04 PM
Gorgeous Lorax - love them all! Congrats on the new species. The biting ants tend to keep me out of the dense stuff!!

lorax
04-22-2009, 06:12 PM
Me too. Ever heard of "Bullet Ants"? I've got 'em.

Must have topographic co-ordinates for exact location....
It is important - the microclimates change so fast here that at least that much info is necessary. Some Anthuriums are only found in the Mindo microclimate, which is Northern East-Slope. Equally, there's an insane rate of aroid endemicism in the South-Central West-slope forests, especially on sandstone beds. (For those of you following along on the map, that's the provinces of Pastaza and Morona-Santiago, hugging the Cordillera de los Llanganates and the Cordillera del Condor.)

Bananaman88
04-22-2009, 08:27 PM
Hey, I remember Dr. Croat from MOBOT. Aroid researcher, right? He probably doesn't know me but I knew of him. I was good friends with the girl who used to take care of the greenhouse range where alot of his wild-collected specimens resided. There was some awesome stuff in there! Man, I miss working there!

islaverde
04-22-2009, 08:41 PM
Must have topographic co-ordinates for exact location....:ha::ha::ha:

Haha it didn't occur to me to have a GPS that time. Believe it was around the Tandayapa valley area that I went to. Basically cloud forest (1800-2400m) area. It is amazing to know that Anthuriums can be so "endemicised" even within Ecuador!