Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:55:08 -0700 From: barry@as.arizona.edu (Barry Meyers-Rice) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2393$foo@default> Subject: CP in AZ
>I'm a newbie to CP, looking for suggestions for CP that could do well in =
>the Arizona Desert.........low humidity. Can be indoor or out, can also =
>provide clean H2O, and shade if required. I saw Cephalous (spelling??) =
>lives in Australia and wondered if it would do well here.
>Thanks!
>Joe
Hey Joe,
I was in Tucson for about 12 years and know a bit about what your conditions
are like. As John in Phoenix noted, indoors you are only limited by terrarium
culture limitations, assuming you keep the plants cool. Outdoors in a
greenhouse is great too. But otherwise you have a real problem. I think
the only plants you'll have luck with are plants you can grow during the
winter. I was reasonably successful with some easy tuberous species. During
the winter they'd grow, during the summer they'd die back to a tuber as they
should.
Drosophyllum tends to die at temperatures exceeding 105 F.
Cephalotus certainly could not grow out doors.
Good luck!
Barry Meyers-Rice
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