Re: CP update...

Barry Meyers-Rice (barry@as.arizona.edu)
Mon, 2 Mar 92 16:48:23 MST

>Someone was asking about germination of the N Fusca and Tentaculata from the
>seed bank. I haven't had much luck;

I haven't had any germinations.

>I have seen a herbarium sheet of D. madagascarensis. It looked like D.
>anglica to me.

The photograph of it in Kondo makes it look like the stemmy forms of
D. intermedia. Now we have a real mix of answers!

>Barry, I don't think CPN ever printed a picture of a P. cyclosecta flower,
>or to my recollection have ever described it.

I'll look in my notes. But until then I'm looking in a catalogue I just
got from Marston Exotics (England) and they describe cyclosecta's flowers
as being mallow.

This Marston Exotics catalogue is interesting. The conversion from pounds
(&) to US simolians ($) is about &1=$2.25 I think. Anyway, some prices...

D. aliciae &4.3, D. capillaris &4.3, D. filiformis (X californica) &8.20,

All pretty high! The highest price I saw is for S. oreophila @ &29.50!
I find these prices also strange in that H. nutans and common Sarracenia
all all priced at about &15.

>* Repotted some D. hamiltonii plantlets. I've had this species

Remember this winter I got all panicky because my plants died back? I took
root cuttings as insurance (all growing well) and was relieved when they
resumed growth? Well, something very good must have happened in all this
because EVERY ONE of the original plants are producing scapes! I'm pretty
thrilled, since photos of the flowers look big and lovely.

>* D. falconeri are growing slowly, under lights, at work. I

Well Mister Allen, my petiolaris `Kununurra' is in 50/50 peat/perlite and
doing great.

BAMR