Re: Red Venus Fly Traps

Heggood@aol.com
Sun, 13 Oct 1996 15:12:15 -0400

As for Royal Red VFT's:

I have difficulty understanding why anyone having the proper appreciation for
insectivorous plants would want a plant in thier collection that is atypical
of
the typical North/South Carolina coastal plain specimen. You can have the
rest as curiosities as far as I am concerned!

I think the basic spirit of the CP collector is to have a deep appreciation
of the
species and natural hybrids, not to see how far the envolope can be pushed.

On the extreme, suppose you could hybridize a Cephalotus Follicularis with a
Sarricenia Purpurea. Probably would be a marvel of science, but for my part,
I would have no more appreciation for the plant than I would someone's
painting
of what it would conceptually look like.

I hope no one finds this point of view offensive.

-steve-