Are you growing aroids?

Many aroids are common houseplants.

Spathiphyllum
Epipremnum aureum (Golden Pothos)
Philodendron
Aglaonema
Diefenbachia
Anthurium
Homalomena
Caladium
Colocasia
Alocasia


Philodendron hederaceum 'Brasil'


Anthurium amnicola hybrid


Homalomena rubra

Another common one:

Dieffenbachia 'Compacta'

How about EE's. Nice cubit!

Thanks!

Is the one in the first picture a C.esculenta Var.'Illustris'?

Love the second picture! That is 'Mojito' right?

With Seray, NICE.

You've named them right! I was surprised how black the illustris got this summer. Very little green.

I saw a really cute stingray at a nursery and thought about getting one for next year. I really liked the little tail.

Hi Taylor! Just stopped in to congratulate you on being Today's Featured Cubit. You've done a beautiful job here.
Everything looks wonderful.

The only Arum that I grow is the Italicum. This is a whole world I've never ventured into. But I will come back & visit again. Good luck with you new venture.

stormyla said:Hi Taylor! Just stopped in to congratulate you on being Today's Featured Cubit. You've done a beautiful job here.
Everything looks wonderful.

The only Arum that I grow is the Italicum. This is a whole world I've never ventured into. But I will come back & visit again. Good luck with you new venture.

thanks!
My A.Italicum are starting to pop up now.

Seray said:You've named them right! I was surprised how black the illustris got this summer. Very little green.

My Illustris is pure green right now! I had some trouble with bugs on the leaves, I treated them with soap, all the leaves fell off, and the newest leaf was pure green, not a bit of black! the leaf after that looked like a typical Illustris!

mekos said:I saw a really cute stingray at a nursery and thought about getting one for next year. I really liked the little tail.

I love Alocasia 'Stingray', only saw it in a store once but it was too much money for me

I saw you as the featured cubit and thought I would stop by as well I have a good many aroids considering I live in Zone 6.
Here is one of my Port Odora's there are four of them one planted in each corner bed.

A.'Portadora' gets huge!

Where did you get yours?

From Bill at Caladiums4less. I bought two of them last year and dug them up and overwintered them and ordered 2 more this year. They are big not what they would be in a warmer zone where they have a longer growing cycle but pretty impressive to me. I planted them the last week of May and it seemed to take them awhile to get going. The colder ground temps I guess. How do you do with your Zone 5?

I'm still not entirely sure what all falls into the Aroid family?
I have a rather large Prince of Orange Philo. I've had it for a couple of years.

HollyAnnS said:I'm still not entirely sure what all falls into the Aroid family?
I have a rather large Prince of Orange Philo. I've had it for a couple of years.

Nice one!
I have Philo.'Imperial Red', pretty much the same as Prince of orange but red.

Aroids have the spathe & spadix inflorescence like in your picture (very good pic BTW!)

In my Zone 5 I bring my plants inside over winter and outside for summer.
I am hoping to get a greenhouse.

I have one philodendron...most common of the common, I suppose. I don't know how old it is, but it was large when we bought the property 14-15 years ago. It was growing in a half barrel and was too large for them to move. Okay, so it was 'nice', but didn't necessarily interest me..just part of the background..until the evening that I smelled this wonderful new scent and went looking to see what I could find. Surprise, surprise! I didn't know that philos flowered, let alone could smell like this. Now it's a treasure to me.....

I have a baby Philodendron-- also have some EEs--
and african mask Polly--

Gift from Susan, Gardenersdetective

Ridesredmule said:

You have to let me know when you have extras of that C.affinis!


And those little Alocasias too!!

That is the one Susan gave me. Isn't it precious??? I love it.

Ridesredmule said:That is the one Susan gave me. Isn't it precious??? I love it.

where did you get the little Alocasias?