Why Edna! Isn't that special!
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>>"Nepenthes of Mount Kinabalu" has a B/W picture of "aquatic" N. mirabilis -
>>rather remarkable. I always cringe when I see Nepenthes sitting in trays of
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I've grown 'em that way. No problemo. Just let the H2O level drop between
refillings.
>C)both of the above (with those that have tenure, whether they are actually
> dead is a subtle matter and not always immediately apparent. I can think
> of several members on my thesis committee that have uncertain status in this
> respect)
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Eh? Salmon Rushdie -style death threats from Earth First!?
>When I was discussing _Sarracenia_ pollination with my botanist brother,
Ah Ha! So Barry's evil co-conspirator come to light!
>he made some comments I think about often.... Since there are such a long
>distances from stigmatic surfaces to the ovaries, the pollen has to germinate
>and grow a long distance before fertilization can occur. He wondered about
>what sort of competitive environment the pollen grains may function within.
Hey, get a load of Zea mays! Those "silks" you pull off when husking (which
still manage to escape and get caught between teeth) are styles!
>Is is possible the parent plant could produce barriers to resist self
>pollination by inhibiting the ability of its own pollen to grow to the
>ovary somehow? Very interesting line of inquiry, and fun to think about.***
>
Yes, they can and do. It is a protein recognition system.
>>For those of you who are interested, I found Superthrive at Pay Less (a
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>Last night I went rummaging around in the various chemicals my wife and
>I sometimes heap on our poor plants, and I found some of that Superthrive!
>Apparently the missus has used it in the past. She was not too amazed by
>it, although she didn't do any controlled tests.
>
Just keep that Superthrive away from your CP! I read a little paper once,
(actually it was probably just dogma) but it described in graphic detail the
kind of growth abnormalities, monstrosities, and gigantism attributed to
Superthrive feeding regimes on CP. I can't tell you where to find the
article, since I saw it pre-publication, but the title was something like
"A slow Sunday at the Greenhouse" or something...
-Michael
>B
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>***If any of the experimentally inclined scientists/botanists on this list
>pursue this and publish, just include a throwaway line of "We wish to thank
>the illustrious brothers K. Rice and B. Meyers-Rice for their insightful
>comments which inspired this project." :)
Ah yes, Barry Myers-Rice! Fine old chap! Pitty though, how he got so
engrossed with my newly discovered specimen of _Byblis homoconsumis_.
Anyway, his parting struggles in the grip of the plant offered
indispensible data on the trap mechanism... how this plant can take
down an intelligent being who knows what he's looking at. Ah! I
ought to dedicate my memoirs to the old boy... :-)