Mistaken Identity

Demetrio Lamzaki (Dee_Lamzaki@msn.com)
Sun, 30 Jun 96 17:28:37 UT

>Just writing in to see if anyone has any experiance/knowledge of
>Drosera.cistiflora (the pink sundew) or Drosera.linearis (no common
>name) I have seen photos in the book by Gordon Cheers (CPs of the
>World) I like the look of the plant and would be interested in trying
>to grow both species but never see them listed in the seed bank or at
>nurseries.

Hi Tom,

I'm afraid you've been misled. In what is otherwise a nice book,
especially when it comes to pictures of CP, a glaring mistake was made
on page 68. The description of D. capillaris was given under the name
D. cistiflora and vice versa. The species described with the common
name "Pink Sundew" is in fact D. capillaris. The species with no common
name is D. cistiflora, someone switched the paragraphs.

Regards,

Demetrios