Friends with Seeds are Friends Indeed

In Photos on 12 May 2011 tagged Anthurium, Seeds

I love plants. People who also love plants? Turns out, they’re pretty good, too.

When one of my fellow International Aroid Society members* had an Anthurium pallidiflorum bloom and produce seeds, he offered them to the rest of the group. Of course I asked for some. And a few days later, they arrived.

Like my Alocasia odora, Anthurium seeds are only viable for a short time, so I washed them and put them into damp sphagnum moss immediately. Here’s what they look like today.

Friend of Plantgasm and fellow Aroider Zach DuFran also got some and they’re sprouting, too. If our plants thrive, they’ll someday look something like these.

I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that people who make a hobby of nurturing plants would turn out to be generous with each other. But after a career dealing with people who get on the internet and become lunatics, I’m always so pleased to find signs of intelligent life on the web … and in my mailbox.

* Thanks, Albert!

See Also

• Two Links Closer in the Chain of Dendrobium Ifs
  That layer of yellow blobs are all clusters of tiny, growing Dendrobium embryos. Sexy goop, eh?
• Pollination By Post
  Back in May, my friend Zach sent me some pollen from one of his Phalaenopsis orchids in the mail.
• I Think I Impregnated My Dendrobium
  Try, try again.