Please don't shoot me for this! But that last question is truly an interesting one! This is an email from Dr. Tom Croat, America's top aroid botanist at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Dear Denis: There has not been anything published since I published my revision of Anthurium sect. Pachyneurium in the Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 78(3): 539-855.1991. The attractive, coriaciaceous bird's nest sometimes called "jenmanii" sometimes A. bonplandii guayanum, sometimes as A. guayanum had the young leave reddish on the lower surface when young. I treated this as Anthurium bonplandii ssp. guyanum but it might just as easily be considered a distinct species as was treated by George Bunting. It is just that there is so much variation in all of those taxa that I could not find clear separation in them. Certainly this plant did not have anything really in common with A. jenmannii, a species which has a spathe that soon withers and falls off. Dr Tom Croat, Missouri Botanical Garden The email was not sent to me but was forwarded to me by Denis Rotolante at Silver Krome Gardens in Miami. Dr. Croat sent the message to Denis. In case you don't understand, Dr. Croat is saying the plant with the purple/red leaf is not Anthurium jenmanii as everyone now thinks. The plant that produces the purple/red leaf is actually Anthurium bonplandii subsp. guyanum. So what does that mean? It just means you need to change the tag on your plant if you have the Anthurium from the Guiana Shield that produces the new leaf that is purple. The mistake apparently happened as a result of a plant photograph taken at an International aroid Show in Miami of a plant with a bad name tag. That bad name has stuck. But according to Dr. Croat, the plant with the purple/red leaf is not Anthurium jenamanii as everyone seems to think. Here is a link that might be useful: Anthurium bonplandii subsp. guyanum

Try contacting Alvin Tsuruda of Waihale Products. He's small scale, but has a lot of unusual material, and is a really nice guy. Here is a link that might be useful: Waihale Products

I am looking to swap Anthurium plants for the ones I don't have. I have Miss Pamela and Lady Ann Miss Pamela is a five and half inch flower in apricot pink. Lady Ann smaller white with a pink Here is a link that might be useful:

I'm trying as hard as i can to find this plant. I'm e-mailing everybody on the net, I'm calling everybody around australia and i'm even asking the locals... so please, if anybody out there has one or knows of anybody that might don't hesistate to email me. cheers!