CPN - September 1996

Don Burden (donb@iglou.com)
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 00:14:46 -0400

The new CPN arrived yesterday. Here is a short synopsis:

Cover photos: Great photo of P. planifolia with red leaves on the
front cover, colony of P. planifolia on back cover.
Photos by Don Schnell.

Articles:

'A Dichotomous Key to the Genus Drosera L. (Droseraceae)'
by Dr. Jan Schlauer. A 21 page epic!

'The Savage Garden - Mini Bogs' by Peter D'Amato.

'The Saga of Dionaea muscipula "Royal Red"' by
Colin Clayton.

'An addition to Adrian Slack's Comment on Nepenthes
burbidgeae (Improbable) Cuttings' by Olivier Marthaler.
24 hour photoperiod said to help root Nepenthes
cuttings.

'Drosera' by Joe Mazrimas.

Seed bank list includes Byblis gigantea and Drosophyllum.
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Someone on this list wanted instructions to make wasp/yellow
jacket traps a while ago. The easiest way is to simply use
2 liter plastic coke bottles and keep about an inch of coke
at the bottom. Sort of a do-it-yourself pitcher plant trap.

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Don Burden
New Albany, Indiana, USA
donb@iglou.com