U.C. Santa Cruz CP

Email Mujahideen (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Fri, 20 Dec 91 09:49:14 PST

I just called U.C. Santa Cruz, my alma mater, to find out
the status of their limited CP collection. There is an
arboretum which has a "pitiful" collection according to
the person I spoke to on the phone. He said they have
a couple of nepenthes, and some other stuff. When I
checked this out in 1979 they had them all in a geo-dome
shadehouse. Very dark. Nothing looked very happy, but
the Nepenthes looked the least etoliated.

I'm in the process of tracking down the remainder of my
collection in the Thimann labs greenhouses. I called and
left a phone mesg.

I'm hoping to ride up there on my motorcycle next week
(Highway 1 down the coast is a beautiful ride) and view
what I can. I do have an ulterior motive, in that I'd
like to recover some cuttings of any plant I can, if I
can convince them they were my plants. Maybe I'll take
an old CPN with me to prove I was growing then :-). Maybe
I can work out a trade, or a donation, or something.

Scott, I'd welcome you along, but I suspect they will be
closed down in the time period you'll be here. Have you
called California Carnivores yet?

Robert