Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:45:16 -0400 From: "Michael Hunt" <stovehouse@earthlink.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2392$foo@default> Subject: Re: Nepenthes seed
This is a very interesting topic. I have very few female Nepenthes. This
spring a large N. alata did bloom. I left the spent inflorescence on the
plant. I did not pollinate it, and had no other male Nepenthes blooming at
the time. The capsules grew and swelled. They did burst open with what
looks to me like normal Nepenthes seed. But how can this be? Do Nepenthes
waste energy developing sterile seed?
I can add that this plant is located out doors year round. But I personally
know of no other cp growers very close. I am very close to the Gulf of
Mexico and surrounded by Tampa Bay. The seed went everywhere. I have sown
it, but I really expect nothing to happen.
Any comments?
~ Mike
St. Petersburg Fl
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>
> I've had a Nepenthes set viable seed where the nearest known Nep of the
> opposite sex in flower at that time was at a friends house over 2km away.
I
> don't live anywhere near the Nep's natural habitat either. I'm not sure
who
> the polinater was but I suspect a small native bee which lives here in
> Sydney. I don't know the extent of the bee's range, I guess it just got
> lucky.
>
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