Ted Payne, NOT Tom Payne
MALOUF@ESTD.NRL.NAVY.MIL
Tue, 26 Oct 1993 7:30:26 -0400 (EDT)
Sorry everyone. I stand corrected. The hybrid which I described
in a previous post is actually called Nepenthes Ted Payne. I just
got off the phone with Bill McLaughlin (spelled correctly this time!)
and he said it is a cross between Nepenthes Mixta with Nepenthes
Maxima. He obtained the plant from Bruce Lee Bednar of Lee's
Botanical Garden in Florida. (I don't know the who's who in
carnivorous plant cultivation, but I'm sure many of you would
recognize famous names that I don't recognize). Anyway, the
plant is a slow grower but it does produce huge pitchers. It's
a fairly stocky plant, with a thick stem and small internodal
spacing between the leaves. The leaves are lanceolate, about
1.5 feet long (sorry for using non-metric units) and 4 inches
wide. The pitchers are mottled red, cylindrical, about 1 foot
tall and 4 inches wide.
In other news, Bill spoke with a volunteer Nepenthes grower at
Longwood Gardens last night. This fellow does some tissue culture
work, and he just returned from Germany with Nepenthes specimens
in vials. Despite the fact that he had all his papers in order,
he was still detained for 48 hours before his tissue cultures
were released and he was allowed to go on his way. It wasn't
clear to me whether he was detained in Germany or here. Bill
didn't know which grower in Germany supplied the tissue cultures.
He said he could find out. I wonder if it was Uwe Westphal or
Andreas Wistuba.
Bill McLaughin is interested in obtaining the following
Nepenthes: Lowii, Villosa, Edwardsiana, Dicksoniana. If
anyone wishes, I
will pass information on to Bill to arrange convenient contact
with him for the purposes of trading.
Perry