Plants waking up!

From: Paul V. McCullough (pvmcull@voicenet.com)
Date: Sat Feb 14 1998 - 23:24:10 PST


Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 02:24:10 -0500
From: "Paul V. McCullough" <pvmcull@voicenet.com>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg598$foo@default>
Subject: Plants waking up!

My sundews, which have been sleeping in the Klima-gro for the past six
months, have begun to grow again! The most robust is my drosera
intermedia while my drosera rotundifolia has been a little less so. The
drosera capillaris and drosera adelae continued to grow right through
winter. Drosera adelae has in fact marched across the "plains" of my
now dead pings (sigh...) and I've actually had to weed them out. (In
fact it was during such a weeding that I discovered that the intermedia
had resumed growing! One of the adelaes had leaves long enough to cover
new growth on the intermedia...)

Back a few months ago, I reported here that there were some unusual
drosera growing beneath other adelae plants... at this point the tiny
plants looked like branching peltata, but once the over growing adelaes
were removed, the tiny plants ceased this growth behavior and began to
grow in a rosette pattern. They have spathulate leaves rather then
lance-shaped leaves like adelae. Is it possible that these are baby
adelaes (from seed)? If so, that fountain of flowers last summer
actually did produce seed- although, I could never find any. These
aren't at all like the adelae plantlets, which sprout all over the place
and go through some short lived trap shape mutations until settling into
the standard adelae leaf shape (And they do this very quickly). On the
other hand, the traps sort of share characteristics with adelae- strong
central vein, color, etc. I'll try to get some photos (I'll need to dig
out some macro lenses for this) and let the list know when they're
posted.

Cheers,
Paul

PS- My Venus Flytraps seem to be resuming normal growth again, too.

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Paul V. McCullough
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