Sarracenia Tissue Culture:
Carlstrom_Rick (Carlstrom_Rick%P-AME-HQ.CCBRIDGE.SEAA.mrouter@seaa.navsea.navy.mil)
17 Nov 95 20:27:00 EST
I recently bought a small pot with three Drosera Capenis plants. I
bought it at a local plant store. Along side the drosera was two
Sarracenia Flava'a (mislabelled "purple pitcher plants"). All these
plants had signs on them stating that they were created by tissue
culture and not taken from the wild. I thought I read a while back
that nobody has been able to tissue culture Sarracenias. Was I
mis-informed? Are companies actively tissue culturing S. flava? Or
was this tissue-culture label on the pot simply a lie? If they are
skilled enough to tissue culture S. flava how come they seem unable to
properly identify it compared to S. purpurea?
Rick