You might be interested to know that D. `Esperance' has been described
as D. seargentii.
> D. petiolaris complex, which has lots of good stuff, and an issue
> about photographing your CP by a buy named Barry Meyers-Rice. I
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(and my wife says I was a bargain)
> noted also a Mr. Maharaj with a want ad, and a mention of this
> group when it was only 3-4 people. Should I announce it at the
> BACPS meeting next week?
Sure! Why not?
Strange. Many of my Sarracenia are showing signs of awakening for the
season (flower stalks appearing and new roots growing) and it's only
mid February. This is about 2---4 weeks early for me. Those I promised
Sarrs to should expect them in the mail in about 2 or three weeks, unless
you want to risk shocking them with an earlier awakening. My seeds from
last year's crosses are starting to germinate too. Funny how the mature
plants and the seedlings both wake up at the same time.
Also my North American Pings are starting to flower. I'm getting scapes on
my pumila forms, ionantha, planifolia, caerulea, and primuliflora. Zillions
of chasmogamous U. subulata scapes coming up in my Sarr pots too. Ah,
spring!
OK, here's a good project for everyone. There are some who say that viable
crosses exist between such widely separated plants as D. rotundifolia
and D. capensis, and also between D. capensis and D. aliciae. This is not
so impossible as it may first seem, since D. spatulata can cross with
D. anglica (hence D. X `Nagamoto' and D. X `Watari'), and many crosses
exist amoung the various U.S. species (rotundifolia X intermedia,
intermedia X filiformis, etc). Anyone interested in trying this? I'm
certainly going to try the D. capensis X aliciae cross this year---both are
certainly free flowering enough. The trick would be to de-anther the mother
plant carefully enough. Then look for D. aliciae-like plants coming up from
capensis-borne seeds and visa versa. Should be interesting. I've even seen
a photo of the purported cross in an old CPN.
Anyone other than Rob M and I with S. rubra alabamensis of flowering size?
An interesting observation from last year was that while representative
individuals from all the Sarr species flowered for me last year (except my
S. oreophila's), S. rubra alabamensis did not produce pollen---just empty
anthers. This happened also to Gordon Snelling (Southern California) and
Paul McMillan (Nogales Arizona). Keep your eyes open---this is clearly an
indication of the coming armageddon!
BAMR