Tuberous Nepenthes?!

Michael.Chamberland (23274MJC@MSU.EDU)
Mon, 12 Sep 94 08:23 EDT

> From: mjebb@otto.tcd.ie (Matthew Jebb)
> To: Multiple recipients of list <cp@opus.hpl.hp.com>
> Subject: NEPENTHES - Flora Malesiana Revision
>
> 5. N.aristolochioides.

Neat name!

> Thai and Philippine material reveals several grassland adapted
> species with sub-terranean storage organs that reflect an evolutionary
> divergence which no doubt dates from the extensive Pleistocene
> grassland-Savanna plains.
>

Whoa! Tuberous Nepenthes?! Pitcher plants from the glacier's edge! Mid-
Pleistocene! Everything was bigger then. Bigger sloths, bigger horses,
probably bigger flies... Nepenthes the size of wash-basins! Slurping
down mammoth-gnats and packing the fat in their tuberous larder! :-)

Michael

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