Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 19:50:32 -0400 From: "mp" <pmalouf@iamdigex.net> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2379$foo@default> Subject: Re: Nepenthes seeds
Earl,
Nepenthes are dioeceous--they come in varieties of
male plant and female plant. In order to obtain seeds,
you need to have both a male plant and female plant in
flower at the same time, and some means for transferring
pollen from the former to the latter.
If this was not the case in your situation then you didn't
obtain seeds from your dry pods.
Pods containing seeds are plump and often 1 cm or more
in length. The seeds themselves are long, slender filaments
with a small swelling (embryo) in the middle.
Regards,
Perry Malouf
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Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 4:45 PM
> One of my Nepenthes flowered a month ago and I noticed yesterday what
> looked like dry seed pods so I crushed the pods over a white paper and
> tiny long seed looking things fell out. I did not pollinate them and
> there was only one flower stalk. The plants are outside in a
> greehouse. Could these be seeds and would they be fertile?
>
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