Just in case someone has additional info on this.... Great looking leaves, but as is usual, have no idea what its parentage or origin is....also, it seems this name is being used for multiple kinds of Philos. http://www.asiaticanursery.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/plants.plantDetail/plant_id/1678/index.htm
This nursery makes up a lot of names , but do have some sensational plants.I have seen Philo gloriosum called Magnificum. But there does not seem to be much info on Philo hybrids . apart from the list of cultivated names on IAS Could be some Xanadu in the parentage maybe ? or tortum . Ring of Fire looks to be a variegated clone of the hybrid Keith Henderson did , using pollen from a tortum onto a wendlandii hybrid . Harold Cooper named it Hendersons Pride. Another hybrid I have, is a seedling from a stenolobum that has bipinnatifidum father . Slow grower so far , and I will need to see more mature foliage to be certain . Looks a little like this pictured 'Magnificum' .
I share Mic's opinion of Asiatica. They sell great plants that are often tagged with the wrong tag or totally made-up name. I just checked IPNI and TROPICOS and could find no valid species published as "Philodendron magnificum".
They're kinda expensive too, I noticed. Btw, that aroid is probably from East Asia. I just saw a pic on another forum from the Philippines that showed something very similar. probably a hybrid from Thailand. (?)
Here's the other pic I found, from a garden show in the Philippines (where I also saw pics of some meco hybrids, probably from Indonesian hybridizers) http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=50073
The plant shown in the picture from Asiatica is a plant I have and know of as the "Bob See hybrid". I got mine at the IAS show a couple years ago and Fairchild also has a large specimen growing up a tree near the visitor center. The growth habit is that of a creeper/climber and it develops a thickened green stem, unlike the meconostigmas. The blooms look similar to the blooms on Philodendron maximum. I have a good idea as to the parentage of this plant, but although I have both supposed parents in my collection, I don't have a good ID on one of them. Here's a link to the unnamed parent: http://www.aroidiaresearch.org/pgiantp.htm For the record, neither of the supposed parents are meconostigmas. LariAnn Aroidia Research
I think it would have been notable if a hybrid were formed from parents from two different subgenera. Mr. Chumley of Florida noted that he managed to do a P. imbe against P. x evansii, but no one has confirmed this.
Actually, I have a seedling from that cross; it came to me indirectly, not from Mr. Chumley himself. So far the plant shows only characteristics of a meconostigma. LariAnn Aroidia Research
