Date: Mon, 16 Feb 98 23:01 EST From: dave evans <T442119@RUTADMIN.RUTGERS.EDU> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg626$foo@default> Subject: Re: Re: Intestinal flora of Heliamphora
Hi Benjamim,
> >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.
>
> 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!
I think he was asking how the pitchers are inoculated with the
symbiotic bacteria. I'm writing because I'd like to know also.
Where do TC plants get these bacteria from? Are these bacteria
only found on the tepuis inside the plants or are they widespread
and happen to fall into a pitcher and then become symbiotes?
Dave Evans
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