Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 12:22:01 From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg82$foo@default> Subject: Re: CP's in the tropics ?
Dear Jorge,
> Currently I live in Costa Rica (about 10 lat), in San Jose which
> is about 1000 m above sea level (~3000 ft for people in the US). I would
> like to know:
>
> 1-) Is there any CP which's natural habitat is around my country or
> country's characteristics ?
If you mean the tropics with "your country's characteristics", I can
assure you that more than 70% of all known cps grow under these
conditions (less than 30 lat).
In Costa Rica so far only representatives of the genus _Utricularia_
have been found to constitute the carnivorous flora:
_U. amethystina_,
_U. endresii_,
_U. foliosa_,
_U. gibba_,
_U. hydrocarpa_,
_U. jamesoniana_,
_U. praetermissa_,
_U. purpurea_,
_U. pusilla_,
_U. subulata_,
_U. unifolia_.
None is endemic. Some are weeds.
I would guess that there are chances to discover at least one species
of _Drosera_ (e.g. _D. capillaris_) there but I do not know of any
record.
Kind tropical regards from rather temperate Germany (15 cm snow today)
Jan
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