NEWSLETTER
No. 4, 4 December 2004

 

 


Dear members,

Again it took a while before this newsletter came out, still due to our company move.

But the making of the showgardens is coming along, especially the jungle has grown gigantic. So watch your mailbox as more newsletter will follow.

Now that the yucca assortment and the glasshouses are good, we are going to concentrate on the palm import.
For that reason the next newsletter will be about palms. Tropical Centre delivers already a gigantic assortment to wholesale and privat persons inside and outside the Netherlands and also the request for palms is big, especially because we differ through our own nurseries abroad and not import our palms from Italy or Spain like others!
Also the privat persons will have their advantage through this.
Tropical Centre will be from January also the source for your palms!

One example from our own nurseries can be seen on www.yuccainternational.com, only USA customers can order directly from this site!

Enjoy the newsletter

Tropical Centre
Roland Smeets

For the collector of rare and unusual plants, a nice collection from Madagscar:

 

Name Dimensions: Price in euro
Amorphophallus spp Diameter 10-15 cm 40,00
Amorphophallus spp Diameter 20-30 cm 80,00
Bombax ellipticum   85,00
Crinum spp (from itrimo)   30,00
Crinum spp mahajanga   30,00
Cyphostemma elephantopus Caudex 15-30 cm 80,00
Cyphostemma elephantopus Caudex 7-15 cm 40,00
Cyphostemma roseiglandulosa   55,00
Dioscorea sansibariensis 21-25 cm 70,00
Dioscorea sansibariensis 26-30 cm 110,00
Pachypodium rutenbergianum   35,00
Rhodocodon spp   15,00
Tacca pinnatifida   20,00
Uncarina peltata Trunk: 60 cm 60,00
Uncarina stellulifera Trunk: 60 cm 55,00
Uncarina stellulifera Trunk: 80 cm 70,00
Angiopteris evecta
(just arrived, more info to follow)
   

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crinum_spp_mahajanga
cyphostemma_elephantopus
dioscorea_sansibariensis

Mexican accessoiries :

 

Mexican pancho statues in 3 dimensions:
height 50 cm: 45 euro
height 40 cm: 25 euro
height 30 cm: 15 euro

Mexican patioheaters, also in 3 dimensions:
height 120 cm: 185 euro
height 100 cm: 135 euro
height 70 cm: 75 euro

Treefern sculptures from Vanuatu:

 

These monumental gradesculptures are from the north of Ambrym, one of the hundreds islands from Vanuatu. The sculptures are made in ‘Ambrym-style', also called the ‘classic style'.

Such treefern sculptures were and are still made before a ceremony whereby a individual can grow in social order.
Grades give the right to wear special insignes, establishment of artefacts (wooden sculptures) and eat by certain fires. Condition for growing in rang is wealth, because the ceremony has to be paid in pigs, so the highest range is often only for rich men.


The look of the sculptures are made after their beauty idea: wide nose, big nose holes, high forehead and long chin.

In the past the colonist and collectors liked the Ambrym-style and as they ordered to make some, you can still find them in musea.

Our sculptures are made for local ceremonial use, but purchased befóre use in ceremonials. Used sculptures are seen as sacral and can not be bought, also it is forbidden by the government to export them.


The very exclusive sculptures which we have are 200-250 cm high and cost € 3.500,--.


Sculpture in our showgarden

Till the next newsletter!