Re: corrosive plants

Andrew Flostrand (flostran@sfu.ca)
Tue, 19 Sep 1995 12:21:33 -0700

>> By the way, the article didn't say what happened to the explorers
>> who drank the pitcher water. They could very well have dissolved
>> back in 1965, and we wouldn't know about it!
>
>Nothing happens when you drink from Nepenthes pitchers. Joe Nerz and
>myself tried it various times. Well maybe something happened...;-)
>

Now that leaves things a bit open ended.. Are you suggesting that there
may be some recreational pharmesutical value in the pitchers of my
terrarium. (not to imply that I would actually drink from the bug soup
that my pitchers contain) Have any studies of interest been done on the
properties of Nepenthes pitchers.

Do local shamen have anything of a payote type use for them.

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