Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 18:13:15 -0700 From: "Scott Mcphee" <hyphae@email.msn.com> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2917$foo@default> Subject: Drosera ID
I purchased a small Drosera a while back at (shudder) a large chain store
that will remain unnamed. It was from Gubler Orchids and labeled as D.
rotundifolia, though this is doubtful. Gubler is unresponsive to e-mail and
the person who answers the phone has no idea and won't have anyone call me
back ( I have an un id'ed Nepenthes from them also). The D. rotundifolia I
have seen in the Darlingtonia bogs in Plumas county, Ca. were much larger
than this.
The description for rotundifolia in the Savage garden is: 3 inch rosettes,
white flowers. The description in the Jepson Manual has it with white to
pink flowers with the rosettes 8-24cm.
The plant I purchased has rosettes 2-3cm broad, the overall shape is similar
to rotundifolia, the flowers are born on petioles over a foot long and are
bright pink. The plant is definately not still a seedling, it is a large
mound of at least 20 plants and has sent up at least 50 flower stalks, which
have been cut off for the most part.
I would like to get it id'ed so I will know if it will need a dormancy
period. Is it possibly D. spathulata??
Thanks for any light you can shed,
Scott Mcphee
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