Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:02:20 -0500 From: Prem Subrahmanyam <prems@noblestar.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg912$foo@default> Subject: Re: flytraps
>Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:01:05 -0800 (PST)
>From: bruce dudley <bdaviddudley@yahoo.com>
>
>...Such support for
>the value of all animals and plants for sustained
>ecosystems such as boglands and coastal wetlands is
>critical so that we don't loose the last wild flytrap
>populations...
Speaking of "wild" flytraps...interestingly enough, they appear to
be quite amenable to the climate in northern Florida. In a bog
not too far from my home, some individuals apparently introduced a
few flytraps many years ago, and they now grow there by the hundreds
(if not thousands) within a less-than-acre sized area. I have a few
specimens from this bog growing happily outdoors year-round in my
yard in a container that's kept moist (via the pan-under-the-pot
method). But before someone goes and castigates me for removing
"wild" flytraps from the local bog, they're technically an "exotic"
species, and legally should be destroyed if discovered...although
I doubt that anyone who knows of this colony would ever have the
heart to carry out the letter of the law.
If there were ever a severe threat to flytrap populations in NC, then
send us samples of wild flytraps and we can make sure that they will
never go extinct, living happily in the wilds of north Florida (there
are plenty of other boggy areas that could support flytraps, along with
the already indigenous Sarracenia, Drosera, Pinguicula and Utricularia
that already make FL their home).
It's interesting being able to walk outdoors and see all these
natural (and "exotic") wonders in their natural haunts...
---Prem
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