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Bob Beer (bbeer@u.washington.edu)
Fri, 14 May 1993 08:42:46 -0700 (PDT)
The "mystery ping" sold by J.L. Hudson, from the Zapotec seed collection,
has a distinctly different winter rosette. The summer (carniverous)
leaves are flat and sticky, and about 2" long, about the same width. The
winter leaves are small, fuzzy, about 1 to 1.25 cm long, about .4 - .5 cm
wide, and grow in a tight rosette, about 2" wide, looking almost like a
sempervivum ("hen and chicks). Unless the days get short and the
temperatures drop a little, this stage will not take place; a friend of
mine grows them under halides and they continued producing carniverous
leaves through the winter. (I see now that I have mixed metric and
english measures...oh, well..:) They are doing just fine and have
flowered steadily, so as long as the complete conditions for growth are
there, this species at least does not seem to actually require the
dormancy. Mine has been producing trap leaves for about a month now.