Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 09:07:01 +0800 From: "John H. Phillips III" <phillips@library.ucsf.edu> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1419$foo@default> Subject: Re: Death of a Drosera
At 02:21 AM 4/12/97 -0700, you wrote:
>CPers:
>
>While dusting my bookshelves, the cleaning lady (accidently, I am sure)
>sprayed my seven year old, very large (12 cm stem), prolificly blooming
>(four blooming racemes), D. capensis with a product called "Endust", in
>common here in Canada and the US.
>
>The capensis promptly shriveled and died overnight.
>
Are you REALLY sure it's dead??? ;-) Did you give it a chance to come
back from the roots?
I think these things are the botanical equivalent to the masked killer in
the "Halloween" movies. No matter how someone tries to kill him, he just
gets back up. ;-)
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