Interesting comment about hybrid vigor. With regard to the Nepenthes,
my observations would agree that the hybrids exhibit "hybrid vigor", but
I'm not sure I can say the same for Sarracenia, where I probably have a
little more experience than with Neps. For the Sarrs. it seems that
certain crosses produce hardy, robust growers, while others are simply
not too effective. For example, in the wild there are several very
clear swarms of species and hybrid mixes of several of the upright
species, particularly where somewhat disjointed distributions of
populations overlap. At the same time, S. mooreana (lueco x flava)
seems to fail to exhibit the success of hybrids that include rubra or
alata with one of these two. And even more clearly, it seems to me that
hybrids of the upright species with S. psittacina do not exhibit hybrid
vigor. I know they occur in the wild and are readily produced by
artifical means, but they simply do not seem to me to be very
successful. For example, someone spoke of a hillside co
Tom in Fl