Re: Cephalotus
Bob Beer (bbeer@u.washington.edu)
Wed, 29 Sep 1993 08:15:19 -0700 (PDT)
> I was *given* two small plants of Cephalotus last year by a local
> CP enthusiast I had just met. They are gradually getting bigger, now
> about 0.5 inch/12 mm across, with lots of tiny pitchers.
> I assume he grew them from seed (he would hardly of given me
> expensive purchased plants). Is seed generally available? My first
> thoughts when I desire a plant are always to get some seed - its cheap
> (compared to plants anyway), probably easy to grow (after all, that's
> what it's designed to do), and if it does grow, then you end up with
> lots of plants to give away, trade, or whatever.
>
More likely they were propagated from leaf cuttings or they were
offshoots. They will produce the tiny pitchers for some time, and then
suddenly will put out a fully adult type pitcher. Seed is much slower
than cuttings.