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Aug 17, 2020 5:59 AM CST
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Tropicals
Most of the things that have trended recently is the line of Curcuma gingers out of Asia that sell under the Chaidee brand. I know a guy here who is a big ginger guy, he has been since the 1970's, and is set to retire this year, who has put some of his one Kaempferia and other hybrids that he patented into TS 2 years ago. Other than that I think they were just cranking out the usual stuff for interiorscape. I think they jumped on the Birkin bandwagon. But they can churn out liner after liner of the different calatheas and other old standard houseplants and keep in a good business. They have continued to steadily reproduce the ALocaisa hybrid made by Lari Ann Garner (she patents most) They used to TC things like Alocasia cuprea, A. reginula, high end anthuriums like Waroc, veitchii, Marie, spectabile....lots of stuff. They were a big source for ornamental bananas in the mid to late 2000's. That was when you could get stuff like Musa Okinawa, velutina, Ice Cream, etc for real cheap...also Basjoo.
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