Re: CP & orchids
Scott Brown (hsbrown@arnold.Princeton.EDU)
Tue, 3 Aug 93 11:52:32 EDT
> To whoever was asking about seeing Nepenthes in the wild, Mt.
> Kinabalu in Borneo is the #1 place. I posted two references on the
> area a few days ago.
> >From what I've heard, if you have a chance to go you shouldn't
> >pass it up.
> There's also an article in a National Geographic from 1964 about
> the Nepenthes on Mt. Kinabalu. There's no real mountain-climbing
> involved. The whole mountain is a nature preserve with many
> foot-trails. Even a few high-class hotels are there, or are being
> built. No collecting of any sort (even of seeds) is allowed on the
> mountain.
Funny you should mention this article. I just saw it a few days ago at my
grandmothers house. It was an interesting article that might be worth
reading by anybody contemplating the trip to Mt. Kinabalu. It looked like
a lot of fun except for the part about the leaches. The author gets a little
graphic about his experience with the leaches (which seem to eagerly search
for hosts).
Scott