Re: Drosera Villosa Cuttings

Nigel Hurneyman (NHurneyman@softwar1.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:57:06 +-100

I have a single Drosera Villosa plant, hence the need for cuttings to
propagate it. I bought it at the UK CPS meeting at Reading Uni in
January (if you ever have the chance to experience Fernando's talk and
slide show, it is worth crawling naked over burning coals to get
there!). I can't even remember who I bought it from, so I have no idea
as to the material's original locality. Fernando, you actually saw me
holding the plant a few milliseconds after I bought it, and you
commented on it being a nice Drosera Villosa (without reading the
label!).

I risked taking two leaves for cuttings - I was pretty close to
following Tom's recommendations (thanks Tom), although I didn't leave
any stalk on the leaf - I use the term stalk to mean the thinner,
glandless part connected to the centre of the plant. Half of each leaf
has rotted, at the end away from the stalk. However I noticed yesterday
that the unrotten parts have some little bumps coming in the middle.
Tom, where do D Villosa cuttings form new plantlets?

The other Drosera cuttings exhibit quite a range. D Intermedia seems to
grow little plantlets at the end away from the stalk. With D Linearis
they seem to erupt out of the middle of the leaf. With Drosera sp
'Floating, RSA' (Lowrie seed) the plantlets grow at the stalk end. By
the way, has the latter been formally named or identified yet?

Good Growing, NigelH