CP´s in Chile

From: Jose Gengler (jose.gengler@usa.net)
Date: Wed Apr 15 1998 - 16:01:24 PDT


Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 23:01:24 +0000
From: "Jose Gengler" <jose.gengler@usa.net>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg1279$foo@default>
Subject: CP´s in Chile

Hi!

>From the time I wrote the first time on the subject till now, I have
gathered some information about CPs in Chile that I will share now. I
havet yet contacted formal botanics at the universities, but I surely
will.

So far, I have found out thar we have Pinguicula Antartica and
Pinguicula Chilensis. This last one has been never seen in reality by
my friends, only in photographs. However, they say it's a rather
small plant.

There is an other genera present in my country. It's Drosera, one
that is spread allover the world. Drosera uniflora surely exists,
and I suspect there are other species also present. These live in
live Sphagnum, but I think it's another kind of Sphagnum than the
commonly descibed one for usual housegrown CPs.

What all these plants have in common is that they all live in high
altitudes in the Andes (at least mostly). This means their climate is
very cold or at least extreme in some way. The ecosystem in which
these plants grow is very fagile and precarious. For instance, on the
contrary of what happens to sphagnum populated bogs, where sphagnum
appropiately harvested would refill the bog, in these other fragile
ecosystems, the sphagnum will not repair the damage made by the
harvest.

All this means that very likely I will leave the cultivation of
chilean CPs for the last, when I will have some empitical, practical,
experience.

Take care,
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()* || () Jose Gengler
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