Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:04:19 -0500 (EST) From: Derek Glidden <dglidden@illusionary.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg538$foo@default> Subject: Strange pygmy Drosera
Thanks to Jan and Nigel for answering my query. My plants have been
flowering one-at-a-time, and the flowers don't stay open very long so I
usually miss them. I was fortunate enough to catch another one opened a
couple days ago and it looks an awful lot like what Lowrie has identified
as "D. nitidula ssp. omissa * D. occidentalis ssp. occidentalis." This
flower, however clearly had _5_ deep-red stigmas, but were quite
club-shaped as they should be. I wonder if maybe the first flower was
somewhat deformed and the deep red color in the center may have just been
a 5th stigma malformed and wrapped around the center of the flower or
something. The plants otherwise pretty closely match the description,
other than the inflorescences being completely non-glandular. I would
still like to be able to catch a couple more flowers opened, though.
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