Re: Drosera Hybrids

Bruno Moncorge (moncorge@worldnet.net)
Mon, 6 Nov 1995 19:54:57 +0100

Regarding Jan message about
> 1. _D.intermedia * rotundifolia_
and Phil Wilson answer:
> Sorry to contradict you but I have seen the hybrid D. x beleziana
> growing in many of the Dorset and Hampshire bogs here in the UK. The
> plants are quite easy to find where D. intermedia and D. rotundifolia
> are growing. They appear
(from
> memory) to be part way between the two parents in appearance having
> smallish rosettes with semi upright elongated leaves.

> I suppose that it is possible that these plants are merely a different
> form of D. intermedia as stated by DIELS but I would view this as
> highly >
contentious
> given that I have only found these plants growing in proximity to the
> supposed parents.

I can confirm that I saw in Ireland exactly the same kind of plant Phil
mentions (smallish rosettes with semi upright elongated leaves), not
frequently though, and always near an important population of cohabitating
D.rotundifolia and D.intermedia, which also lead me to the conclusion that
it was an hybrid of both species.

Bruno
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