RE: Drooling N. bicalcarata

From: LaPedis, Ron (ron.lapedis@compaq.com)
Date: Tue Aug 18 1998 - 07:48:36 PDT


Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:48:36 -0500
From: "LaPedis, Ron" <ron.lapedis@compaq.com>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg2728$foo@default>
Subject: RE: Drooling N. bicalcarata


>From: Steven Stewart <steven.stewart@worldnet.att.net>
>To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
>Subject: _Nepenthes bicalcarata _
>Message-ID: <35D88E10.6436@worldnet.att.net>
>
>Has anyone on the list growing _Nepenthes bicalcarata_ noticed nectar
>dripping from the thorns in the early morning hours? It looks very much
>like drool!

This is noted and pictured in P. D'Amato's, Savage Garden:, 1998. It also
mentions that ants get drunk on the nectar then fall off the 'fangs' into
the soup below.

Ron LaPedis



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