Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:10:14 -0700 From: "Doug Burdic" <dburdic@harborside.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2502$foo@default> Subject: Re: d.madagascariensis
Hi Jack,
> im new to the list and this is my first question. does anybody know
anything
> about d.madagascariensis? i presume by the name it is from madagascar
but im
> not sure if it grows like winter growing south african drosera or like
other
> south african drosera. i received seed at christmas and planted them
> straight away. they germinated within a couple of weeks and kept on
growing.
> they now have very pretty 2" rosettes and even flowered about a month
ago
> producing seed. do they have any dormancy requirements? do they grow
like
> any other drosera that has more available information? if anyone knows
> anything about this plant, please answer my calls. thanks in advance,
I don't know about other's experiences with this species of
Drosera, but here on the Oregon coast, it not only thrives
well in my unheated greenhouse over the winter (low temps
down to 28 degrees F. outside..few degrees warmer inside
the greenhouse), but has become a weed problem at times
when seeds of it land in pots full of D. intermedia, D. anglica
or D. rotundifolia and since it resembles all of the above at
different stages of growth, you can't really weed it out until
it flowers, or winter when the other species produce winter
buds, thus exposing the 'imposter' which doesn't form these
during their dormant period...It just sort of 'stops growing'
until spring. Growing conditions identical for D. capensis I'd
have to say. Hope this is of some help.
Best Wishes,
Doug
Doug Burdic
dburdic@harborside.com
Florence,Oregon
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> hi everybody
> im new to the list and this is my first question. does anybody know
anything
> about d.madagascariensis? i presume by the name it is from madagascar
but im
> not sure if it grows like winter growing south african drosera or like
other
> south african drosera. i received seed at christmas and planted them
> straight away. they germinated within a couple of weeks and kept on
growing.
> they now have very pretty 2" rosettes and even flowered about a month
ago
> producing seed. do they have any dormancy requirements? do they grow
like
> any other drosera that has more available information? if anyone knows
> anything about this plant, please answer my calls. thanks in advance,
> take care,
> jack.
>
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