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Post by BarryRice on Jul 29, 2013 16:30:46 GMT
Hmph. This is a new comment on a very old thread, and is a matter of preaching to the converted, but these kinds of plantings encourage the notion that Drosera anglica is wider spread in California than it truly is!
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Post by BarryRice on Jul 29, 2013 16:23:14 GMT
Hey Guys,
Travel has me passing through Los Angeles on 17 August, which I see happens to be the same day as an LA CP Society meeting.
Does anyone know if arriving maybe between 12-1 makes sense? I'm not sure just how long the meetings last, etc.
The LACPS web site says it's at the Alhambra Chamber of Commerce. Esta verdad?
Anyone with good information, please also email it to me at bamrice@ucdavis.edu
Cheers!
Barry
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Post by BarryRice on Jun 5, 2012 2:21:14 GMT
Hey Folks,
An interesting discussion. First, by way of clarification, this cultivar was actually John Hummer's baby. He knew of a site along Hurricane Creek that was filled with Sarracenia leucophylla that were very vigorous, and loaded with lots of white pigmentation. (If "white pigmentation" even makes sense!) What attracted John to the population was how vigorous they were, and also just how white they were. They were--in cultivation--much more vigorous than actual anthocyanin-free clones.
When he told me he wanted to make a cultivar of this plant, he was unsure how to proceed, since he thought that you needed to propagate cultivars only vegetatively (which is an understandable, but incorrect belief). I told him that if he wrote the cultivar description appropriately---essentially that these plants were vigorous and very white---it would do the job.
Some of the plants have varying amounts of red pigmentation, but you must admit that of all the photographs you sent, the amount of white pigment is really incredible, and you've got fantastic looking plants. They really stand out from more conventional S. leucophylla, and that's what attracted John Hummer's attention in the first place.
Incidentally, I noticed that in Stew McPherson's latest books, he and Don Schnell established the name Sarracenia leucophylla var. alba for these same plants. So you can go by the cultivar name, as regulated by the ICNCP, or the Latin name, as regulated by the ICBN. (Yes, this is the same situation that is already in place with Sarracenia minor 'Okee Giant', which also is called Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis.)
Cheers
Barry
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Post by BarryRice on May 30, 2012 18:49:57 GMT
Hey Folks,
Visitors to Butterfly Valley Botanical Area (California) this year may notice several burn spots, that look like campfire scars. Worry not--these were not left by illegal camping or furtive UFO landings! They are fire spots left by the work done by Forest Service staff who were lopping down intruding trees. The small slash heaps were then burned off.
The Darlingtonia will do well, with many of these shading trees removed. Good work!!!!!
Also, I have been working (only a little) with FS staff, in the planning of a boardwalk for Butterfly Valley. Increased visitation has been resulting in some trails and soil compaction, and the FS staff are trying to figure out a good trail system through the site. This will make the site MUCH more approachable for people, so is also A Good Thing.
Cheers
Barry
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Post by BarryRice on Aug 28, 2011 14:10:35 GMT
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Post by BarryRice on Aug 28, 2011 14:10:13 GMT
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Post by BarryRice on Aug 28, 2011 14:09:39 GMT
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Post by BarryRice on Aug 28, 2011 0:28:01 GMT
Absolutely beautiful!
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Post by BarryRice on Jul 29, 2011 14:24:25 GMT
Hey Guys,
Here is another site trip video. It starts with a visit to a site near the hydraulic mining area that was so depressing before. Then, it ends with a trip to another site with attractively colored plants.
Enjoy!
Barry
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Post by BarryRice on Jul 29, 2011 14:19:05 GMT
Hey Charlene, I'm quite familiar with the main meadow at Butterfly Valley, and have been there countless times over the last couple of decades. This project is focused on finding other, more remote sites. You may note that during the first few moments of the video, I say that I'm starting my explorations at a point several miles away from Butterfly Valley. Cheers Barry
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Post by BarryRice on Jul 24, 2011 13:24:35 GMT
Lovely work. It looks like you had a good time! And yes, D. tracyi and D. capillaris occur together quite frequently! I'm not sure I can recall seeing D. tracyi without D. capillaris present.
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Post by BarryRice on Jul 19, 2011 23:31:30 GMT
Hey folks,
So, one of my continuing summer projects, as you may have inferred, is finding carnivorous plant sites. I start with hints or old records that I find in books, herbaria, or from other botanists.
Sometimes I get lucky, sometimes I don't get so lucky. You never know.
Here is the video from my latest expedition!
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Post by BarryRice on Jul 19, 2011 23:26:45 GMT
Wow, I can't generalize easily. The first contact with sites usually takes about an hour of bushwacking. No trails. Some sites take less, others take LOTS more.
Then, once I find the site, I can often backwards-engineer a best-approach. Sometimes what was first a two hour bushwack can be turned into a 20 minute hike, if you time it right and have the right vehicle!
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Post by BarryRice on Jul 19, 2011 0:01:43 GMT
Hey Jim,
The whole shoe-tying-without-looking bit was done with cg.
I'm glad you didn't video me, when we were together on that trip in SC and I was descending that steep cataract bog on a rope. The language....
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Post by BarryRice on Jul 12, 2011 14:06:01 GMT
Hi Bob,
Site 1, very small.
Site 2, upstream, larger.
Site 3, upstream further, very large, with Darlingtonia. Near the campground.
Site 4, above the campground, very small.
Sites 2 and 3 were on the far side of the river, 1 and 4 were on the car's side of the river.
As a source of some shame, I found an obvious bridge crossing, so I didn't have to go back across the water. That was good, because the water nearly knocked me to the ground a couple of times. It's kind of hard to walk, when your legs are so numb you can't feel them!
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