China

Gilles Lardy (lardyg7@cti.ecp.fr)
Tue, 23 Jan 1996 01:31:59 +0100 (MET)

Hi everybody,

First of all thank you for your good advice about cultivation of U. quelchii.

I have planned to go in China next summer, and more especially in Beijing.
Would anyone have information on the chinese CPs ? Is there any CP
collection in China ?

Last summer I went to Hong Kong for a two months training period. As you
can imagine, I tried my best to find CPs in the country... To have some
information, I went to the Herbarium in Hongkong Park, and I saw that they
had just opened a new room with a CP collection. And you know what, the only
CPs they had still had the "Produced in Holland" label..! It's a shame, they
have a wonderful climate for tropical CPs, have several local species, and
the only thing they have to show us is these tiny imported CP cuttings.

So I went to the library, so as to find serious informations on the local
CPs, and I found out that there were D. spathulata, D. burmanii, some
Utricularia species, and Nepenthes mirabilis, which was said to be "common".
Unfortunately I did not find any of those plants in the wild.
I there any member of the listserv living in HK ? I would like to have some
information on their location, in case I would go back there for some days
after China ?

Thank you in advance,

Gilles.
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Gilles LARDY
E_mail : lardyg7@cti.ecp.fr