RE: sub carnivores

From: Gilles LARDY (g.lardy@faiveley-fareast.com)
Date: Wed Nov 04 1998 - 19:30:31 PST

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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:30:31 +0800
From: "Gilles LARDY" <g.lardy@faiveley-fareast.com>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: RE: sub carnivores

Hello Jan, Charles, David and the others,

Talking about whether or not CPs really benefit from their carnivorous
attributes, I remember of an article published at the end of the seventies
(1977??) in the magazine "Pour la Science", which I think is the translation
of the Scientific American.
The article described the culture of many CPs in-vitro, and noticed that in
the case of D. binata, the plants were deprived of any tentacules if grown
in a media with enough nutrients.
On the other hand, what about this form of tuberculous drosera (erythrorhyza
?) that is naturally devoid of any tentacules, but manages to maintain its
populations anyway ?

I will let the specialists discuss these two examples which, as far as I'm
concerned, are quite contradictory...

BTW, Jan, why would you like to put ALL the bromeliads in a sub-carnivorous
section in case one of them was proved being carnivorous. I thought that
just B. reducta, B. hectoides and C. berteronia were candidates for
carnivory ?

Thanks,

Gilles in HK

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