Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 08:26:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Barry Meyers-Rice <bamrice@ucdavis.edu> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2355$foo@default> Subject: U. calycifida: terrestrial or epiphyte
>Hello, Juste a question utricular is the calycifida epiphyte or
>terrestrial? Or then is to you there two species? Thank you Th
Hi "Diobel",
I do not have experience with this plant in the field, but in my
horticultural experience it grows excellently as a terrestrial.
I know there has been a thread on this listserve as to the best planting
medium for this species. I find this strange because it grows madly for me
in just about any medium---pure peat, sand/peat, sphagnum, and out of the
bottom of pots into the tray-water. I have several clones of this plant
(all the registered cultivars, and various hybrids of them that I made)
and they are all of comparable vigor---although some of the hybrids are
slower growers (and I usually kill these in the end).
I think lighting is more important than anything else. I grow them next to
U. longifolia and they're happy...
Barry
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Dr. Barry A. Meyers-Rice
Carnivorous Plant Newsletter
Conservation Coeditor
barry@carnivorousplants.org
http://www.carnivorousplants.org
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