Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:51:35 EST From: MCATALANI@aol.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg587$foo@default> Subject: Re: blue/gray flava
I remember a flava that matched this description as well. It was in a
drainage ditch in someones front yard between destin and santa rosa florida,
and I found it originally about 10 years ago. When I returned last summer,
it was gone, as were most of the other plants. The drainage ditches were
being torn up in order to lay new gas and water lines. The plant had the blue
gray coloration, and was heavily veined. It was just shy of 2 feet tall.
Michael Catalani
<< In "The Savage Garden", Peter says something about Slack's "incorrectly
named" cultivar S. flava "Maxima" with blue/gray coloring in the lower
pitchers. What is the correct name? Is it really just a cultivar or
just a characteristic of a locality? I ask because I have a S. flava
grown from seed that originated from Walton County, Florida, and it
shows this same blue/gray coloring in the lower pitchers. The pitchers
are very stocky and shorter than my other flavas, but the rhizome is
much larger. It's still a young plant though (maybe 4 years old), so
it's hard to tell how tall it will eventually get.
John Green
Salt Lake City, Utah >>
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