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John Taylor [The Banshee] (rphjt@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
Thu, 8 Apr 93 09:21:16 +0000

>>Although I haven't tried this species, the local D. planchonii has
>>large, if thin, seeds (few-several mm long) and required no special
>>treatment.
>
>
>Wow. Big seeds! Incidentally, the fast bushfire you describe is what
>I mean by a cool burn. I usually make these fires (as described by
>Slack in his books) out of dried wild oats or other grasses to
>germinate the _Byblis_ taxa that require it.

Well, maybe I exaggerated a little - a few mm long seems to be more like it
now that I think back... Of course, in the other two directions, the seed
is quite a bit smaller than this (1/8 - 1/4mm perhaps?) and they are very
light too (probably helps wind dispersal of the seeds over long distances).

>Senor Taylor, the _Utricularia_ seeds you sent germinated. With any
>luck (or maybe lots of it) I'll ID it for you in several months!

Great! I was a bit worried about them as they had been on the plants for a
while and a lot of the older scapes had started getting mouldy - I think we
might need more air flow in the greenhouse? No doubt they will turn out
to be some form of U. gibba, but we'll wait and see...

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