Hi everybody,
This summer I will probably visit Switzerland, and I remember it was
mentioned somewhere that Sarracenia purpurea is growing in the wild in the
swiss jura. Does anybody knows exactly the place where they grow?
Furthermore, knows somebody if there are some botanical gardens in
Switzerland with a substantial cp-collection?
Martin Zevenbergen
martin.zevenbergen@algem.pt.wau.nl
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Martin and Carl:
I grew up in Switzerland and spent quite some time in Swiss bogs and Botanical
Gardens...I will try to help.
It is true there are several thriving populations of S. purpurea in the Jura.
I might add that they seem, from photographs that I have seen, to be a lot
larger than any of the northern US clumps. Martin, for more info contact me
directly - I can put you into contact with some Swiss collectors. Do you know
German? or French? this might help.
As far as Botanical Gardens go, the one in Zuerich is very nice. They have an
outside glass/wire display case where they display several species which, in
the past, have included H. minor, S. oreophylla, S. minor "Okee giant",
several
Pinguicula, Drosera, Dioneae, Drosophyllum (always in flower), and in the
glass
dome Greenhouses you might find some Nepenthes, last I was there in 1993, I
found N. alata, gracilis and a few others.
Bern is also rather nice, it has a smaller collection in a simmilar display.
However, this was in 1987, and things may have changed since then - I was also
with Lorenz Buetschi who had a much nicer collection (unfortunately since then
he moved to S. France where he lost most his plants to a freeze - according to
hear-say).
Anyway...If you want more info just email me.
Christoph Belanger
eheick@acs.bu.edu