>Hi all:
>
>Well, I tried something new with a healthy Nepenthes a few weeks ago. It
>opened a large trap. I looked around for bugs, or something to feed it, but
>I couldn't find anything. Then, I got an idea. I decided to fool the trap.
>I opened a magazine and clipped out a picture of an insect and dropped the
>picture into the trap. To my surprise, the picture dissolved in the trap,
>and, two weeks later, I was rewarded with both a MALE and FEMALE flower
>stalks. I cross polinated the flowers and waited. Soon, a single seed pod
>formed on the female stalk. When it matured, I opened it very carefully.
>To my amazement, nothing poured out of the capsule. Instead, when I opened
>the pod wider, I found a picture of some seeds.
>
>---Steve
Ha ha! I got a good laugh out of this story. Steve, I think this was your
best story/theory yet! ;-)
John phillips@library.ucsf.edu