Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:26:06 +0930 (CST) From: elliott@nexus.edu.au (Russell Elliott) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg4090$foo@default> Subject: Re: The Great California Darlingtonia Expedition
>D. capensis must emit some kind of growth inhibitor because I have
>watched them take over most of the standing water at that bog and even
>though there is plenty of room the D. rotundafolia seem to die the pools
>of water where at one time as full of D. rotundafolia as they now are of
>D. capensis. Any one know how I could go about checking for growth
>inhibitors? I am thinking about trying to remove all of the D. capensis
>from a pool of water and see if I can get the D. rotundafolia
>re-established.
>
Craig,
If I were you, I'd go about trying to remove *ALL* of the Drosera capensis.
It was a very bad mistake by someone to introduce it in the first place!
I don't know if D.capensis emits growth inhibitors, but I have seen it
outcompete and smother other cp in pots where it has self seeded.
-Russell
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