Welcome aboard. I am intrigued to see you and your wife are at UCD.
Your wife in particular may know a particularly disreputable botanist
there named Kevin Rice. Last time I checked he was working on Oaks,
and also an apparent degradation of DNA in seed stored in seed banks for
long periods of time. Mind you, it is a *complete* *coincidence* that he
and I had the same last name (at least until I married) and look very
similar, and perhaps have the same Chicago twang. Brother? Huh? :)
>Sarracenia,
>Drosera,
>Nepenthes,
>Dionaea,
>Pinguicula,
Hmm. Asking for growing parameters for this group is like asking what
do humans prefer to eat. There are many cultures involved in both (sorry
for bad near-pun). I have written some guidelines for CP growing I can
post, but it's about 2 pages long and I'm not sure people want to read
through it.
Hey, earlier this week I made an offer for various _Sarracenia_ seeds
for those who may be interested. I will append it to this note since
I've only gotten a few requests and have more left over. Any that I don't
have offers for will be sent in bulk overseas to various CP associations.
I figure I'll get moving on this next week.
Barry
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Hurry hurry hurry! The annual October Sarracenia Blowout at
Sonoran Sarracenia Seed Sale is about to start! Don't miss it!
Actually, I've nearly finished collecting seed this year. I've got
the following:
_S. leucophylla_---typical red+white+green form
_S. alata_---typical veined form (selfing)
_S. flava_---tall, all green plant (selfing) (not anthocyanin free form)
_S. flava_---various degrees of veining and throat splotch. A bunch of
---mixed seed I haven't stored separately, so I can't fill
---requests for "lots of veining" etc. (no selfings)
_S. flava_---tall green form (above) crossed with _var. rugelii_
All seedlings should be very vigorous, especially from the non-selfed seeds.
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Email me your requests first and I'll tell you what I can send you. Then
send the $$$$$.
US CPers, please send a buck a packet plus a SASE and I'll send them out
as soon as they get in. International people just send 2 IRCs with your
self-addressed envelope or the equivalent of a couple of bucks in paper
currency. This bit about sending money is to defer postal costs and to
kick me out of my apathy.
I will bias international requests over US, since I can't send live Sarrs
out of the U.S.---seed is the only chance for non-US.
Barry Meyers-Rice
Steward Observatory
University of Arizona
Tucson AZ 85721 USA