Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 20:30:27 +0100 From: Phil Wilson <cp@pwilson.demon.co.uk> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3100$foo@default> Subject: Re: ID Drosera
In message <3608041C.837F11C8@cable.A2000.nl>, Jaap Noordeloos
<Jaap@cable.a2000.nl> writes
>> I would be grateful for some help identifying a sundew I bought from
>> a UK garden centre - I think it is one of the mass produced dutch
>> plants. The leaves are held erect and look like D.anglica but with
>> perhaps a slightly more squared off than rounded apex to the lamina.
>> The flowers are pink with a single basal division of the styles and
>> then a short terminal division (within the stigma?). The styles and
>> stigma are of uniform diameter throughout their length.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Richard
>
>
>Hi list and Richard,
>
>I think it is a Drosera intermedia. There is a Cp-nursery in Holland
>who grow these plants labeled D. cuneifolia, buth I have my own
>thoughts about this cultivar. The plants look like a giant D.
>intermedia. I have a couple of the plants in my own collection also
>with the name D. cuneifolia on the label. I live in Holland, so does D
>intermedia in swamps and bogs. The couple of plants of D cuneifolia I
>grow at home survived 2 winters here in Holland (if it is really D.
>cuneifolia?) just like the other temperate Drosera's. I grow D.
>intermedia, D. rotundifolia and D. anglica with great results outside
>the whole year here in Holland.
>
Hi,
I was under the impression that D. intermedia had white flowers. If it
looks like D. intermedia with pink flowers I would guess it is one of
the evergreen South African species - perhaps D. nidiformis?
Regards,
-- Phil Wilson
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