Hah! Having germinated in Chicago, and planted out in upstate New York
before being transplanted to Arizona, I know of your seasons. And I
scoff them. Bah! Here in Tucson a heavy frost is considered a
blizzard, and I for one do not particularly lament winter's loss. After
all, after your hair freezes solid a few times the novelty is lost.
When I seek cold I open the refrigerator and look at my wintering pots
of _Drosera_ and _Pings._
IMHO :)
>Glad to hear our D. coccicaulis is now D. natalensis. Would this be an
>ACTUAL D. natalensis, or would it be D. natalensis 'coccicaulis', or maybe
>D. natalensis (thick, semi-erect leaves), or what??
Actually, Don and Jan (Don Juan? Coincidence?---some say no!), I am
labelling this plant on my plant list as
_D. natalensis_ `Allen's D.coccicaulis' because my list gets a lot of
distribution and this way it points out to those interested that
`coccicaulis' is really _D. natalensis_. But this is the only reason.
It is funny (but irritates me sometimes) how these bogus names take
hold and get entrenched. I'm sure that there will be those who will
insist on calling it something like _D.natalensis coccicaulis_ or
something like that.
It reminds me of a certain grower who had some `U.dusenii.' I reminded
to him that `U.dusenii' was an invalid name for _U.tricolor_ (or maybe
(_U.nephrophylla_...I don't recall right now). Well this grower had another
pot of _U.tricolor_ and since the plants looked different he insisted on
calling the first plant `U. dusenii.' After long (light-hearted) pestering
on my part, he finally capitulated a bit, and would call the plant either
_U.tricolor dusenii_ or U. sp. dusenii, depending on him mood. Maybe he
just didn't want to shorten his plant list by one entry. You Earthlings
can confuse me.
BAMR