Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 22:09:51 -0500 From: Richard Brown <esoft@ix.netcom.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg700$foo@default> Subject: Re:Burkei or ventricosa redux
>This young plant, what stage would you say it's in? Only a couple of
years from seed or a cutting from an older >plant, Perhaps the upper
pitchers of these two species are similar.
Hello Dave from sunny south Florida,
The young plant of N. burkei is identical to the one at Atlanta
Botanical Gardens, and I believe it came from John DeKanel. The plant is
not mine, but seeing it among a group of ventricosa of similar age, it
does look different. Its hard to say, but the pitchers may be an
intermediate form. The plant is too young to be producing true upper
pitchers. They have a definite funnel shape- more so than the ventricosa
benchmates. No doubt burkei is closely related to ventricosa, but there
is a difference, and to me it is fairly apparent. I'm hardly a
taxonomist, so maybe it is a form of ventricosa scientically- look at
mirabilis and echinostoma- but somewhere along the line a botanist
decided it is a different species (burkei compared to ventricosa) and I
can see it.
These new species from the Phillippines are very interesting in that
they all have "ventricosa like" features. I wonder how many more there
are yet to be discovered in some remote area on one of the islands.
Until later,
Trent Meeks
Pompano Beach, Florida
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