Ed, the only way you will know for certain is to wait for the plant to produce a spathe and spadix. I'd say Dieffenbachia as well but I can see similarities to an Aglonema. The spathes are radically different. My big Aglonema produced a ton of spathes just a few weeks ago but that isn't a plant I grow in the atrium. It was given to us as a "house plant" and it lives in the living room! Russ would know (Bluesea) but for some reason he has been very quiet lately. This appears to be a hybrid.
Thanks guys, my guess also, I'd just like to know which hybrid it is?? Where has Russ been anyway? Ed
if it IS a deiffenbachia, it must be a hybrid - i've not seen that coloration before. it's very nice though! and i really don't like variegated stuff too much...
I thought I seen it in Deni Bown's book, but I have lent it out!! You don't know how much you miss something untill you don't have it... But then again, maybe its not in there? Ed
Mic, thank goodness you are back!! There are quite a few threads that need your input. I said so by name in one! Steve
G'day Mick, yeah its a funny one. Have you seen any up there before? I only found this, and other aroids, because of a feature I was playing around with the other day. I punched in "horticulture" into the GPS and it came up with the "registered" (to that GPS anyway) nurseries closest to me!! The first one I picked up a Xanthosoma lindenii and the next one this! Cool feature, but could become expensive... Ed
This plant looks like a variegated form of Aglaonema modestum: Check the link below: Aglaonema modestum. Hope this helps! LariAnn Aroidia Research
Not very plant educated yet, but the first two made me thing Hosta, until the third with the woody cane stalks... Can Hosta cross with Dieffenbachia? I also took care of lots of aglo's when I did the interior plant care position, and the petiols, stalks look completely different, and it's hard to tell, but doesn't seem quite as succulent as the ones I saw here in the states (at least the ones the vendors in the midwest recieved).
After comparing it with LariAnn" URL picture, I agree with her and with "trikus" who also id it as an Angloanema
ED , I have not seen that plant up here . Aglaonemas will become more popular as the new super coloured hybrids from Indonesia & Thailand start getting readily available . But the simple old species are just as great , I am still getting my collection to gether ,, will trade you a bit of that one when it warms up . Hostas do not do well in warmer climates , they are fantastic foliage plants and I wish I could grow them , they are much larger than Aglaonmeas though .
Thanks LariAnn and Mick!! Good to see I have a species for a change, and I will put one aside for you Mick for Spring...
Hi this plant is Aglaonema modestum Shingii. I have two forms of it. It is being sold by asiatica as faint heart.
Rare as Ed, looking at the price asked here ;; http://www.asiaticanursery.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/plants.plantDetail/plant_id/738/index.htm
Interesting Mick. I still have one put aside for you mate, to swap, and looks like I'll be going back to get more lol ; ) Ed
ed, i don't know how common they are here. it's just that asiatica is in the same state as me - and there's still time to get an order in before it's too cold to ship :)
Ed, if you are still around , those tips you sent are doing well .Just gave it a top dress and fertlize . One leaf has a white splash on it , hope fore a sport , these have been known to do so . google tells me it could have been revised a bit . modestum or simplex ? Though the bicolour leaf form is registered as 'Shingii'
