Re: CP stuff
Don (dngess01@vlsi.ct.louisville.edu)
Wed, 26 Aug 92 23:02:27 -0400
D. madagascariensis:
I sent 3 seedlings each to Barry and Robert Allen in the mail today.
Expect them Saturday. I'll probably be sending this plant to others later.
I've traded plants with Rob Maharajh recently and we've decided that the
best way to send plants that take rather a long time in transit, as it
does between Canada and USA, is to send them bare root in small plastic
zip-lock baggies. Wet peat moss or sphagnum causes the crown to rot in
the 10 days or so it take for the package to reach its destination. This
is especially critical when sending plants like Pinguicula. Also, instead of
going to the bother of boxing the plants and then making a special trip
to the post office to mail it, small plants can just as easily be sent in
an ordinary envelope and use thick corregated cardboard and/or bubble plastic
to protect the plant from being squashed. Small size zip-lock bags can
be bought from large electronics stores.
Back to D. madagascariensis, my plants have been growing well outdoors in
a peat moss/perlite mix (50:50). The species D. collinsiae is said to
be a fertile hybrid between madagascariensis and burkeana. The plant
produces leaves like D. intermedia, but has a caulescent growth habit
(forms a stem) and can get to be a big plant like D. capensis. I got the
seeds from the seed bank, so I'm not sure about the ID. I remember the seeds
didn't look like intermedia seeds (which would be the species that looks
the closest to madagascariensis when plant is small).