Group Order and Hard-to-Find Nepenthes

MALOUF@ESTD.NRL.NAVY.MIL
Fri, 29 Oct 1993 8:52:07 -0400 (EDT)

Don,
How do things stand with the group order from Andreas?
I recall that a preliminary list of desired plants was to have been
sent about a month ago, and that we were allowing until mid November
for a first response.

Nepenthes Edwardsiana, Dicksoniana, Lowii, and Villosa seem
to be as hard to find as N. Rajah. No one on the net answered my
search for these. I surmise the reasons might be (from most
probable to least probable) 1) No one has these plants, 2) The
plants are too small to be propagated just yet, 3) The plants are
being jealously hoarded :).

Andreas offers Dicksoniana (probably Dyeriana) and Lowii.
Uwe Westphal offered Edwardsiana. Both offered Rajah, and neither
offered Villosa.

In other news, I found out recently that a fellow who works
in my building has a small greenhouse in his backyard with around
700 orchids. I visited last weekend and brought one of my N. Khasianas
to show him. He fell in love with it. I promised to get him a
small N. Alata for his greenhouse and he was very enthusiastic about it.

I get a rush when I turn someone else on to CP's!

Perry