Don, I caught your postings to some of the Southeast Asian newsgroups
a while back. Too bad the respondents weren't interested in local
plant life. I've spoken to several people from Malaysia and the
Philippines and their reaction is similar "Oh THOSE plants! We used
to see lots of them in the woods and never cared about them. In
fact, my mom used to pull them out of her garden...."
By the way, Don, the three cuttings I obtained from
you are doing quite well, and two of them have developed one
pitcher each. The only holdout is the plant which you described
as never pitchering very well--was it the boissiensis?
Right now I have few leads to pursue for obtaining Nepenthes
seeds or cuttings. The two people I speak with frequently who
can help me are Bill McLaughlin of the National Botanical Gardens
and Rob Sacilotto of Botanique. Bill might be willing to work
with me when contacting Missouri Botanical. Rob has been
around for a while and possibly has some old contacts at
Missouri and Longwood. Steve Marak posted that he knows
some people at Missouri in the Aroid Group (?). Perhaps
one of these people knows the curator of the Nepenthes'
colletion? A few names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses
would be very helpful.
A gentleman by the first name of Anders will be visiting the
Washington, DC area this week, as most of you may have read
from his posting to this group. He was interested in meeing
, oops I meant, MEETING some CP growers and Barry recommended
that he contact John Hummer. I have tentatively arranged to
meet Anders this Thursday evening--he'll be staying in a hotel
that's about 15 minutes from my house. Since my collection
isn't that big I told him to not expect too much. My
N. Khasianas are producing beautiful pitchers,though, and
I do have a D. Binata that's in bloom.
Perry