tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post3784342363133324617..comments2024-03-27T07:35:21.832-07:00Comments on Plants are the Strangest People: Scarecrow (Cryptanthus cvv.)mr_subjunctivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-89090898000393333252015-06-05T11:40:57.854-07:002015-06-05T11:40:57.854-07:00Why CAM? Why expend resources you don't have t...Why CAM? Why expend resources you don't have to? It's probably just more efficient in the long term. They may have evolved in a much drier climate, that area has had some pretty significant climate swings since the Chryptanthus shows up in the fossil record, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-19296318636430800772011-01-11T16:03:03.786-08:002011-01-11T16:03:03.786-08:00I just stumbled across this profile via Google whi...I just stumbled across this profile via Google while searching for images of <i>Cryptanthus</i> flowers--I was fairly certain that's what my plant was doing, and the best-pictured flower is (unsurprisingly) yours!<br /><br />I've never propagated <i>Cryptanthus</i> other than just sticking pups in soil--although I've also never seen them come off the tops of the plants, always from Kenneth Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619410362453458358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-68969736108183113212009-08-31T10:13:16.289-07:002009-08-31T10:13:16.289-07:00I have had a very high success rate in propagating...I have had a very high success rate in propagating these by mimicking the conditions of the greenhouse I bought them from (where they tend to just grow on the table after they roll away from their mama). I put a bowl of water in a production terrarium and left the soil on the dry side. I used a combination of sand and vermiculite, which where formerly the media in a fish tank. The terrarium was Green Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09382097380069441398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-42243023580146015402008-12-13T16:27:00.000-08:002008-12-13T16:27:00.000-08:00I used to have one, though I never had any success...I used to have one, though I never had any success in getting the pups to root so they eventually died on me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-89736761655428365672008-12-13T05:16:00.000-08:002008-12-13T05:16:00.000-08:00Fun read! I used to have one... I remember it as ...Fun read! I used to have one... I remember it as pink and sharp-edged. I also remember it going all crunchy eventually. Stupid humidity.<BR/><BR/>As for why a plant in a wet place would use CAM... it may be as simple as its ancestor was a CAM plant so the trait came along for the post-speciation ride. If CAM is plesiomorphic (another $5 word!) in the Bromeliaceae, then any species that failedDianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589473046882217457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-19075198334597203362008-12-12T18:13:00.000-08:002008-12-12T18:13:00.000-08:00Well, it's not like there are labels or help sheet...Well, it's not like there are labels or help sheets for most of the other plants, either. <BR/><BR/>The carbon dioxide theory sort of works in relatively still air (it <I>would</I> concentrate towards the ground, as it's heavier than nitrogen and oxygen molecules), but it'd do that during the day, too, so long as the air were still: it couldn't explain why they would prefer to take up CO2 at mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-26644880249743943912008-12-12T17:44:00.000-08:002008-12-12T17:44:00.000-08:00As an understorey plant in sort of soggy condition...As an understorey plant in sort of soggy conditions - would there perhaps be a greater concentration of CO2 at ground level at night?<BR/><BR/>And - is there a teeny clue as to why people aren't buying Cryptanthus in the quality of the labels that come with the plants? Or the help sheet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-88627859602793552362008-12-12T17:08:00.000-08:002008-12-12T17:08:00.000-08:00our joint reservations re orchids is confirmed by ...our joint reservations re orchids is confirmed by the eternal wind having suddenly produced a flower.One day the tiniest of unfolding, the next day complete flower.. just as you said untrustworthy!.. but oddly beautiful...just writing about it now.. Valsharp green pencilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03995814359038535193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-60073283525422161542008-12-12T07:58:00.000-08:002008-12-12T07:58:00.000-08:00I love my Cryptanthus, but I'm not sure why. I ha...I love my Cryptanthus, but I'm not sure why. I have several, they don't seem to do much, but I really like the variety they come up with.<BR/><BR/>Cryptanthii perhaps? Of course I also use the term penii too, so I'm not above inventing my own terms.<BR/><BR/>Kept thinking of something about flaming and closets, but it's been a long week and I'm not coming up with anything clever or even Lancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17953459540634785074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-29574547902696593992008-12-12T05:03:00.000-08:002008-12-12T05:03:00.000-08:00Oh Mr. Sub, you do go on!Guilty as charged. I was ...<I>Oh Mr. Sub, you do go on!</I><BR/><BR/>Guilty as charged. I was <I>this</I> close to splitting it into a two-part post, and probably I should have.mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-73276710206035180552008-12-12T04:31:00.000-08:002008-12-12T04:31:00.000-08:00Oh Mr. Sub, you do go on! Number one, I am glad t...Oh Mr. Sub, you do go on! Number one, I am glad to not have been your college dorm roomate! Number two, I have a collection of these crypts planted in a rectangular clay shallow pot, strangely drawn to them when a new colorway is spotted at a nursery. They get repotted and reduced to stay together nicely in the pot every three or four years, in cactus mix potting soil. One year I forgot to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com