Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 23:43:56 -0500 (EST) From: Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg497$foo@default> Subject: strange pygmy Drosera
My pot of what I thought were D.pygmaea is now blooming and when I noticed
that one of the flowers was open this morning when I got up, I took a
close look since they've usually bloomed and closed up while I'm at work
or otherwise not home. I noticed a few unusual things about the flower:
it had five petals, it had a deep maroon-red center, it had four deeply
red-maroon sickle-shaped stigmas. In fact, the flower looks very much
like the photo of the "rare red-centered white flower" form of D.pulchella
from Lowrie's Vol.2 except with only four stigmas and they were as deep
red as the center of the flower. My experience with pygmy Drosera at this
point is almost entirely based on what I've read of that book, I'm not an
expert by any means. I'm almost sure it must have some D.pygmaea in it
because the inflorescences are relatively short and single-flowered in
every single case. (There are at least 20 plants in this one small pot
and they're all flowering right now) Is this some hybrid that's not in
Lowrie's book but is relatively common (I bought it at a plant sale -
it's not likely to be an extremely rare one-of-a-kind anything) or does
D.pygmaea occasionally have D.pulchella-like flowers?
I took a few pictures of it and as soon as I get that film developed, I'll
scan them in if there is any interest or curiosity.
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