Drosera and Nepenthes

Laurent Ide (lide@dvddd.com)
Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:09:13 GMT

Nobody answered my easy question: do the Nepenthes control the liquid level
in their pitchers ?

Now, another question more interesting for our scientists friends: Adrian
Slacks, in his book, talks about Drosera erithroriza (wrong spelling maybe)
like a non-carnivorous plant. The leaves drag no tentacles, so they can
not catch insects (logical !) but however, they grow very well.

That's ok, but in another book (Gerard Blondeau) I see a marvellous picture
of a plant called Drosera erithroriza with short, but really red and
numerous tentacles. Are there a lot of sub-species in this family ? Or is
one of the two auctors wrong ?

If anyone could answer me this time...

Laurent