Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:14:53 -0600 From: lasseter@chemvx.chem.tamu.edu (Benjamin Lasseter) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg624$foo@default> Subject: Re: Intestinal flora of Heliamphora
>
>I have a nice H. minor and would like to know if it is able to
>"eat" in culture. As it produces no digestive liquid but gets
>help from bacteria living in the rain-water in it's pitchers I
>wonder if and how these bacteria get into my plant. I fill the
>pitchers with osmose water as that's all I have.
>
>Bye, Stefan.
>
>
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>Dipl.-Inform. Stefan P. Wolf
>.....................................................
>Inst. f. Medizinische Informatik und Statistik (IMIS)
>Klinikum der Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel
>mail : IMIS, Brunswiker Str. 10, 24105 Kiel, GERMANY
>phone: (+49 431) 597-3173 --- fax: (+49 431) 597-3193
>>>>>>> http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/medinfo/ <<<<<<<
Dear Stefan,
I like the joke about referring to H. minor's "intestines".
Regarding these bacteria, they live in symbiosis with the plant.
On the average, there are about 100,000 per square inch of surface area
inside the trap. You could not possibly get rid of them without killing
the plant first, and even then I am not entirely sure the bacteria would
go. Filling the pitchers with distilled water certainly couldn't do it,
nor should you particularly desire to try. After all, they do help the
plants thrive!
Benjamin F. Lasseter
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