Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 21:08:51 EST From: VFTMaxwell@aol.com To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg4002$foo@default> Subject: (no subject)
In a message dated 12/16/98 12:00:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
cp@opus.hpl.hp.com writes:
> To all,
>
> This question goes out to the avid Nep grower.
>
> I recently received a cutting from a friend. The cutting was some unknown
> Nep hybrid, but he said that it produced a very interesting trap.
>
> Thinking nothing much about it I potted it up and put it next to my other
> Nepenthes plants.
>
> First of all- (a) - when I received the plant it was producing "uppers"
> (because it had 2 uppers on it when I got it)........now it is producing
> lowers--above the uppers!.....?? Any comments?
>
> (b) - This is the truly weird part.....On the tendril of the new pitcher
> and ONLY the tendril....there is sort of a "hole" (for lack of a better
> term) every 1/2 inch or so and on both sides. Out of each hole is what
> appears to be a perfect "droplet" of "fluid". (All clearly visable). I do
> not know if this is some kind of nectar baiting system, but if it is, I
> have never seen such a thing on any of the many other Neps I grow.?????
>
> Any comments or answers would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Marc I. Burack
> marcb@companionfinancial.com
This is the second weird story in the Digest!
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