Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:33:27 -0400 From: "C. J. Mazur" <ccp@vaxxine.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2455$foo@default> Subject: Re: S oreo making new pitchers
Actually in the wild, S. oreo goes into a summer dormancy. Places where
they grow tend to be wet in the spring, but as the heat of the summer moves
in, the habitats tend to dry out, so the plant produces phylodia and goes to
sleep. In the fall if it gets wetter, the plants may start producing
pitchers again.
Infact many sarrs tend to have a summer rest. Leuco, for example, pitchers
pitchers like crazy in the spring and then stops, and even produced phylodia
and then goes into active growth again in the fall.
>> I have a question about my S oreo's. They flowered and pitchered early
in the season, and
>> then produced tons of phylodia (I probably let them get a bit dry). Some
are potted and some
>> are growing in my first attempt at an outdoor bog. I've noticed
recently, however, that most
>> of them are beginning to produce pitchers again. I was under the
impression that once they
>> started producing phylodia, they were done till next spring. Is this
common? and will it
>> weaken the rhizomes or affect flowering for next
>
>My Sarracenia oreophila is doing the same thing here in Missouri. So
>maybe it's normal?
>
>Susan Farrington
>Missouri Botanical Garden
>
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