This is the second write-up in my compilation of posts on hybrids produced by the University of Hawaii.
The UH has an agriculture program that was one of the frontrunners in generating fresh anthurium species in the last several decades. This department has been at the leading edge of producing types that are: much more resistant against disease, higher yielding, much more colorful and able to be preserved longer following being harvested. In this series of reports, I'm going to highlight the fruits of their efforts.
The Le'ahi is a green and pink obake that is named after the Hawaiian name for Diamond Head, the renowned volcanic cone that's a prominent Oahu landmark. The Le'ahi's maintains its wonderful pigmentation year-round and produces nearly 8 flowers each year. Regrettably, it's prone to blight, so it's a marginally trickier plant to cultivate.
The Le'ahi was created by mixing an offspring of orange-colored UH931 along with a pink-colored Blushing Bride. It is a variety that will work well as a potted plant and as a cut flower. However as a cut flower, some say it features a stem which is a little too short. However its uncommonly attractive color pattern, helps to counteract its small stems.
The New Era is really a purplish-pink bloom that received its name through being the first blight resistant plant. It is ushering in a new era of blight tolerant plants. It features a somewhat elongated spathe along with a yellow-green spadix which becomes white as it matures.
The New Era was a product of crossing three distinct cultivars. An A494 Anthurium andraeanum was bred with an A. antioquiense, and the outcome of this combination was once again bred with a pink UH507 to make this wonderful blossom. It features a long stem and it is resistant against both anthracnose and bacterial blight. It was unveiled to cooperating farmers back in '04 and it makes around six blooms each year. What's more, it provides an fantastic vase life of forty-four days.
The UH has an agriculture program that was one of the frontrunners in generating fresh anthurium species in the last several decades. This department has been at the leading edge of producing types that are: much more resistant against disease, higher yielding, much more colorful and able to be preserved longer following being harvested. In this series of reports, I'm going to highlight the fruits of their efforts.
The Le'ahi is a green and pink obake that is named after the Hawaiian name for Diamond Head, the renowned volcanic cone that's a prominent Oahu landmark. The Le'ahi's maintains its wonderful pigmentation year-round and produces nearly 8 flowers each year. Regrettably, it's prone to blight, so it's a marginally trickier plant to cultivate.
The Le'ahi was created by mixing an offspring of orange-colored UH931 along with a pink-colored Blushing Bride. It is a variety that will work well as a potted plant and as a cut flower. However as a cut flower, some say it features a stem which is a little too short. However its uncommonly attractive color pattern, helps to counteract its small stems.
The New Era is really a purplish-pink bloom that received its name through being the first blight resistant plant. It is ushering in a new era of blight tolerant plants. It features a somewhat elongated spathe along with a yellow-green spadix which becomes white as it matures.
The New Era was a product of crossing three distinct cultivars. An A494 Anthurium andraeanum was bred with an A. antioquiense, and the outcome of this combination was once again bred with a pink UH507 to make this wonderful blossom. It features a long stem and it is resistant against both anthracnose and bacterial blight. It was unveiled to cooperating farmers back in '04 and it makes around six blooms each year. What's more, it provides an fantastic vase life of forty-four days.
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