Give 'em a little more time. It took mine about a week, I think, and
they were still germinating after a few more. Look for a tiny little
green nub at the center of the floating seed. From the distinctive
seed coat (using the stereomicroscope in the lab) I was able to narrow
that plant down to about 9 possibilities (out of the 214 species!).
My plants are now about 1.5" long, still too small to help with
further I.D.s. I will keep you posted.
>plant list
Maybe I should modify a copy of mine to send over the email lines
too... Paul Taylor (New Zealand) asked me about this too.
>I have seen orchid "virus"; little spots on orchid leaves. I also
>have seen similar spots on Nepenthes leaves. Connection? What "is" the virus
>anyway?
Mike, I've been reading a bit on Orchids, wondering if I should be
so foolish as to become an "Orchid Farmer" (as I read someone
referring to herself on the Orchid network). It seems that there are
several viruses involved, i.e. Phaelenopsis virus, etc. Perhaps they
are the same beast, just different hosts? Anyway, all the pictures of
viral damage are characteristic....the scarring is in a ring. But
hey, I'm v. new to orchids, and I don't know anything but CPs.
>Barry, would you happen to have any D. capillaris white flower seed you
>could spare? I would like to try seed germination out o doors. My
>cappy whites are doing fine, but they don't seem to want to flower. They
Uh, I don't think so. The plant is so invasive, it has a "no-flowers"
rule on it in my Greenhouse. I do have live plants, though... Depending
on when we next meet, I could send/give them to you along with pygmy
gemmae.
Paul Taylor emailed me, and said that an excellent thing to get
from the Southern Hemisphere is Vol 1 and 2 from Allen L. Sorry
Paul, we already have them! In fact, Allen is almost completely
convinced that he will have to do his books in four volumes, and he's
also thinking of doing a book on Stylidium, for those who might be
interested. I think that since Allen sells mostly Drosera, he's
not looking forward to the Utricularia part of his job ahead.
Paul also emailed me a description of himself which I am now forwarding
to all. I'm including a letter he mailed to me, with responses to some
of my queries....MY response responses (whew!) are in (). Hope you
don't get too confused trying to decipher this. :-)
Paul, see if you can send direct to the others, see
their addresses in the header to this letter.