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RoRo vs Highway Beauty
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Posted by bromadams (My Page) on Fri, Oct 17, 08 at 22:37
| Does anybody know the history behind Peter Huddy's two Vriesea hybrids RoRo and Highway Beauty? I picked up a pretty nice RoRo this week and I can't see any reason to get Highway Beauty since it so similar. If the Bromdex is accurate these two share a common parent, saundersii.
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RE: RoRo vs Highway Beauty
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| RoRo's other parent is platynema, where Highway Beauty has bituminosa as the other parent and grows up to be a much larger plant due to the bituminosa influence. That is according to Andrew Steens and he has pictures of the two of them (both albo-marginated)in his new book. I also have the variegated vorms of both of them and should be able to tell you the difference between them, size-wise, in a couple of years. What I did find is that both of them get much nicer colour grown in very bright light, even with a bit of direct sun. Japie |
RE: RoRo vs Highway Beauty
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Bromadams,
Nice looking RoRo. I have been told that HighwayBeauty is a prolific pupper and makes a good landscape plant. I have either a HighwayBeauty or a RoRo -it has just finished flowering, the plant is 70cm wide and 35-40cm high. Does anyone know which plant I have got? thanks,
Rick
 
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RE: RoRo vs Highway Beauty
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Japie,
You are correct and yes both are great plants, 'RoRo'is smaller than 'Highway beauty'but does have slighty wider leaves. There is also a Albomarginated version of 'Highway Beauty'. Highway Beauty also will Novar so dont sell or give away your pups till you make sure you have a good one. |
RE: RoRo vs Highway Beauty
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Jaga -Now I'm really confused. In a previous post I asked what Nova meant and now I see you saying a plant will also Novar. Is this a different word? and what is it's meaning?
All the best. Confused Nev. |
RE: RoRo vs Highway Beauty
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| Nev, the term 'Novar' is used when a variegated plant gives a pup with NO VARiegation. The possibility is there that the 'Novar' pup may still produce variegated pups when it grows up but the possibility is slim. Nova is a name given to a particular clone of Vr gigantea seideliana which looked a bit different to the parent. Nothing to do with variegation. Japie |
RE: RoRo vs Highway Beauty
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| Japie - Well now that's cleared up I can settle down and drool over the forum pics once more, thanks a lot Japie and Lisa for sorting me out. All the best, Nev. |
RE: RoRo vs Highway Beauty
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| Thanks for sorting that Japie. |
RE: RoRo vs Highway Beauty
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crikey, Its been awhile since I've visited these forums, but i am having some trouble seeing the difference between Highway beauty and RoRo also. Shouldn't the fact that they have two different parentages-s-s make them look suitably different? By the way rick, your plant is stunning.
Japie, a couple of years have passed now, any noticeably differences in your two as they grew?
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