Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 22:46:48 +0100 From: Phil Wilson <cp@pwilson.demon.co.uk> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1523$foo@default> Subject: Re: Drosera Adelae seeds-
In message <354FF41A.366ECC14@voicenet.com>, Paul V. McCullough
<pvmcull@voicenet.com> writes
>I had metric tons of flowers on my adelaes last year- hundreds of
>flowers on candy cane shaped stalks- and yet, I couldn't find one single
>seed. I did however, get a few baby adelaes from seed that evidently
>was produced. These develope much more slowly then your typical root
>plantlets that adelaes love to poke out.
>
>Has anyone seen any evidence of adelae inhibiting growth of surrounding
>CP? One of my D. intermedias died when an adelae plantlet sprung up
>near it and another began to whither... I cut the plantlet and pulled
>the thick root out, and ever since, the sick intermedia has started to
>rebound. I noticed the same thing happen to a VFT that's near the main
>cluster of adelaes, but it seems to be recovering since I've nipped back
>the encroaching adelaes.
>
I have a D. adelae growing with one of my D. regia plants and so far
they seem to be happy companions. I didn't plant the D. adelae, it just
appeared one year, probably from a piece of root in the sphagnum.
Regards,
-- Phil Wilson
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