Re: [APD] 'Tropica' Java fern

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

Ahhh. So some of us might even have "Tropica" and not
recognize it. That takes some of the fun out of having it.
;-)

sh


--- Karen Randall <krandall at rdrcpa_biz> wrote:

 
> Even Tropica no longer actively produces or sells the
> 'Tropica' cultivar. 
> It turned out that after a while, even through only
> asexual reproduction, 
> the plant reverted to very close to the "standard" large
> Java fern.  I still 
> have some in some of my tanks, but at this point you'd be
> hard-put to see 
> the difference.  An OCCASIONAL leaf will throw an
> OCCASIONAL extention, but 
> that's it.  This was not a matter of cultural
> differences, however.  It took 
> a number of years (I'm guessing it was at least 5 or 6
> years) for the 
> cultivar to slowly revert back to normal form.  Some of
> us tried hard to 
> keep our most dramatic stock and work with it, but it
> still slowly reverted.
> 
> Tropica never knew how the 'Tropica' variety (or the
> 'Windelov' variety, for 
> that matter) developed.  They didn't do it on purpose,
> but simply found some 
> plants growing that way in one of their greenhouses.  So
> it is possible 
> that it was a rare but normal variation of the wild
> plants.  But they have 
> gone back to the area where the stock for those original
> plants was 
> collected, and have been unable to find any more plants
> like them.
> 
> I'm sure lots of us would be thrilled to find someone who
> was maintaining a 
> stable population of that variety, but so far everyone
> we've talked to who 
> kept it in those early days had it revert to the normal
> type eventually.
> 
> Karen 
> 
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