Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:28:33 -0500 (EST) From: Oliver T Massey CFS <massey@hal.fmhi.usf.edu> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg569$foo@default> Subject: Re: Mellard's favorite hybrid
> Stefan and Larry are gently persuading me that it's a flava x leuco
> hybrid and the likelihood of alata being in their is small to none. It
> certainly was fun to guess and I was convinced a week ago that alata
> just had to be there.
>
> Now, along with my quest of finding the turbo Darlingtonia (a
> heat-tolerant clone) and a Drosophyllum that lives with my watering
> techniques, I'd like to germinate some rugellii flava x leuco. However,
> I'm a bit impatient and don't want to wait a year to get my own seed.
> Anyone got any seeds of this hybrid to share?
>
> The usual, I'll trade, buy, or whatever applies.
>
> David
> Atlanta
David:
I should have one or two different S. x mooreana seed sets around. As I
recall one set is from a selfed hybrid and another set is from an F1
lueco x cutthroat. I have no idea about the amount of red in them. The
picture that got this all started had a lot of red as compared to what I
have seen in most S. x mooreana. In addition, most mooreana have
dimorphic pitchers. Early pitchers are very flava like in shape with
the lueco apparent in heavy aerole production and veining on the lid and
upper tube while late summer pitchers are very lueco-like with more
rolling of the column and flattening of the lid. This hybrid has always
appealed to me, maybe because it was one of the first I found in the
wild years ago.
I would hazard to guess the picture (BTW, is it me or is the picture no longer
available at that web site?) was an early pitcher - the early pitchers are the
real beauties.
Anyway, drop me a note for trade etc.
Tom in Fl.
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