Re: Bruce Lee Bednar's letter
Robert Allen (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Thu, 15 Apr 93 11:31:59 PDT
>>Back to Marcel Lecoufle's hybrid N. x boissiense, it had been written
>>that the superba was the old victorian cross of hybrida and
>>hookeriana, this was a mistake made in a list made by Ron Fleming back
>>in 1979 and its reappeared over and over again in reference books.
>>The male plant used in Lecoufle's cross was N. x superba - that is N.
>>* mixta var. superba (northiana * maxima). The female plant was a
>>gracilis-looking plant that had been in the nursery for decades - it
>>turned out to be N. distillatoria. Lecoufle had two variations in the
>>siblings - N. x boissiense has green leaves and medium sized long
>>pitchers that look just like mixta. It is rare in cultivation. Then
>>N. x
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>>boissiense var. rubra look more like the distillatoria parent - has
>>reddish stem, brown/red leaves, and a brown/orange small pitchers -
>>hence the rubra name. Both, of course, are the same plant just
>>different clones. The rubra is the common form.
Oh oh, I have a rare plant! :-). Just kidding. But I thought
that the canonical Nepenthes list in CPN some years ago,
reprinted in one of Slacks' books, listed N. x boissiense as
being much more involved, including N. khasiana in the parentage
(I don't have my references available here at work).
R.