Re: How did carnivorous plants happen?

Randall Palmer (sfdzeqe0@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us)
Mon, 8 Apr 1996 07:01:18 -0400 (EDT)

I heard a theory a couple weeks ago that there was this advanced
civilization which went up in a neut. explosion and their corn mutated
into bug eaters.

Names of carnivorous plants
Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula)
Came from North Carolina
You can grow in Canadian peat, water almost every day, does not like
wind, water from underneath, can take full sun with more water.
(Drosera)
Florida Sundews
A. Intermedia
B. Filiformis
Capensis (South Africa Cape Sundew)
Drosera Planehorn
Puuganis German Sundew
Forked-leaved Sundew, Drosera North Plains Binata
The Binata grows wet during the summer do not fert. Binata or at least I
have not found a fert.
The other Sundew also grows well in peat, stays with water close by.
Starts from flower seeds or in Spring from cut roots put in and on the peat.

Pinguicula
Butterworts or Pings
A. Moranensis
B. Agnata
C. Gypsicola
Grow in dirt, Canadian peat to rich, keep above water 4"

(Utricularia)
Bladderworts
A. Sandersonii
Grows leaves on the root on top of wet spagnum of peat.
B. Aquatic Bladderworts
Grows under water, the bladder opens up and sucks the small insect in and
then closes the door.
(Sarracenia)
American Pitcher Plants
1. Purple pitcher, Purpurea
2. Parrot pitcher, Psittaccina
These two do well even partly submerged the Parrot has eaten menows when
the field has been flooded next to a stream.
3. White tremper, Leucophylla
4. Sweet trumper, Rubra
They seem to do well in the Canadian peat

Randall Palmer sfdzeqe0@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us