Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 19:32:55 +0000 From: drake@erols.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3753$foo@default> Subject: Strange Ping and all-red VFT
1) Strange Pinguicula. Not yet identified. Alternating leaves at
top of stem(s), lower ones turn yellow and fall off. Produces seeds
at all leaf nodes at once, or produces a "stack" of seeds that grows
above where the uppermost leaves are, making the plant topheavy until
seeds are ready to fall off (this topheavyness has caused one of the
two leaf-producing stems to bend and crease, requiring me to lash it
to a stake in the medium to keep it upright, this bending may be in
part due to the plant being grown under artificial light awhile back
causing the stem to be thin and stretched as it grew). This
Pinguicula DOES NOT FLOWER. Seeds are produced without flowers. Can
anybody identify this Pinguicula?
2) Two small all-red VFTs. Being grown outside in full sun.
Numerous other VFTs being grown with them are green. These two VFTs
have absolutely no green, and are always a dark red color. One other
medium sized VFT is also nearly all-red, showing only very slight,
yellowish or greenish discoloration from the red coloring close to the
ends of a few of the leaves. If anybody has any VFTs that have these
characteristics of apparantely no chlorophyll production (must have
some, since it is healthy and living, yet no green is visible) and the
deep, dark-red blood coloring, please respond to this posting.
Thank you.
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