Ha! My Arizona plants are already producing pollen! I guess I'm a month or
so ahead of you (but 5 or 6 behind Messrs Taylor sitting on the Earth's
bum). :)
>I never realized what a "weed" Drosera Adelae is...I had one plant
>growing in
>cutting" is responsible for this. What's the technical term for these
>phenomena??
There are several, but a good catch-all phrase is vegetative multiplication.
Suppose the stems holding together a big clumpy plant die, and the now
separate portions reroot---this is called senescence. Or adventitious
plantlets can form on the flowering stalks---this is false vivipary.
There are many other terms depending on the details.
Rah! My _U.inflata_ has successfully flowered and produced healthy normal
flowers. Very nice. I am going to photograph it then look for the active
stigmatic surfaces Jan said may be present.
Last summer I was visiting Gordon Snelling of California when I noticed a
most interesting weed growing in one of his pots---a clone of
_U.bisquamata_ (known to the unwashed as ``U.capensis'' :}) with very
large flowers. Gordon happily gave me a clump, muttering something
derogatory about the genus. It is flowering now for me, right next
to my other clone of _U.bisquamata_. This is a superior plant---while
my original clone (and ones received from other growers) has small
flowers only about 2 mm long, the one from Gordon has large expanded
colourful corollae several mm long, with big inflated palate bulges.
Very nice. I'll see if it produces seed.
B