Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:03:37 -0400 From: "Paul V. McCullough" <pvmcull@voicenet.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1495$foo@default> Subject: The "Mutt" Ping revealed?
Yesterday, I stopped by Home Depot to see if they recieved anymore CP.
The d. adelae plants that I reported were dying in a previous post were
gone (predictably) but there was one new example of the mutt Ping that
I've been writting about. This mutt had an open flower! The flower was
a hot pink or bright violet with white at the very center. According to
info in my "Carnivorous Plants of the World" (Pietropaolo) book, this
narrows the mutt Ping to three ping families only: P. longifolia or P.
moranensis (although the leaves don't really look like the pointy ovals
I've seen pictured elsewhere; my mutt's leaves are are more pear shaped
where the top of the pear would be at the plant's center) or P.
primulfolia. The "mutt with the flower's" label said (of course) Venus'
Fly Trap (Argh!). The label said that the plant came from Alpine, Inc.
(Anyone ever heard of them?) At any rate, I was glad to see another
mutt that matched my mutt in bloom as both flowers on my mutt died.
(sigh).
To Craig McDonald: My Home Depot d. adelae has two flower scapes per
plant! They are getting close to flowering- the flower scapes did a 180
degree turn (ala sarracenia) making them look like two candy canes. The
adelae seems extremely vigorous (eating tons of gnats rising out of the
soil), so I'm letting it flower. In the book I mentioned above, they
say that while d. adelae flower "profusely" that they don't usually set
seed. I'm not too worried though as this sundew is already much larger
then it looks in the photo (Condo) on my page. And plantlets seem to
spring up all around its base!
Cheers,
Paul
-- Paul V. McCullough http://www.voicenet.com/~pvmcull
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