Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 20:41:55 +0100 From: Clarke Brunt <clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg493$foo@default> Subject: Re: Aranjia sericofera and Drosophillum seeds
On 3 Feb 97 at 15:17, Alessandro Delfrate wrote:
> 1) I have received from a friend some seeds of Aranjia sericofera. My friend
> told me that this plant was considered a carnivorous plants, and that
> someone still believe it is carnivorous. Any ideas about this plant?
It's "Araujia" - you've got the 'u' upside down - a twining member of
the Asclepiadaceae. Like some others in the family, this plant can
occasionally catch insects by the proboscis in its elaborate pollen
bearing structure, but I don't think that there is any carnivory
here. It's probably just a case of the wrong sort of insect visiting,
so that it's proboscis gets stuck rather than carrying off the
pollinia (pollen masses) to another plant.
-- Clarke Brunt (clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk)
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