Re: northern CP news
Robert Allen (Robert.Allen@Eng.Sun.COM)
Tue, 27 Jul 1993 08:36:35 +0800
>>>>>not get enough crawling insects to feed it.
>>>
>>> If you get tall growing sarracenia they will definately attract
>>> their own food. S. purpurea should also attract its share of
>>> bugs, but perhaps to a lesser degree.
>>
>>you've lost me in the latin here. i'll assume that sarracenia is pitcher
>>plant, and s. purpurea a member of same...
S. flava, S. leucophylla, and others are tall thin pitcher plants,
sometimes called Huntsmans Horns (at least for S. flava). S.
purpurea has a red flower, and the low squat pitchers lay on the
ground, open to the sky.