Steve
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Post by Steve on Mar 24, 2007 7:17:26 GMT
Yeah, usually the Nepaholics make the biggest showing. It's about time the Droseras got their due! (No pun intended )
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Post by squarehead on Apr 1, 2007 8:36:51 GMT
Sundews rule, and we are their obedient servants.
Hans
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Post by nepenthes on Apr 1, 2007 12:30:53 GMT
You guys have no clue what you are talking about, hehe, Viva La Nepenthes! ~Runs Away before I get flamed~
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Post by rsivertsen on Apr 1, 2007 15:15:13 GMT
Hey Matt, although I may be better known for my efforts with Nepenthes, (as you well know! lol), I've always had a fondness for Drosera. You may recall that I was the one who rediscovered D. hybrida back in the early-mid '70's (there's a funny story behind that, I'll spare it for another post entry), and also, a few years later, I discovered the hybrid of D. linearis with a fertile allopolyploid form of D. rotundifolia x D. linearis (=D. anglica?, again, some continuing controversy about this), which looks remarkably like a D. capensis, and was again revisited by Don Schnell back in 1999 (I think). I hope to post some images of the Drosera from the NJ Pine Barrens this year, including the hybrids with D. intermedia and D. rotundifolia and D. hybrida; it's also interesting to see the slight variations of D. rotundifolia from the NJ Pine Barrens to the mountainous bogs of the Catskill Mountains of New York, in Orange and Sullivan Counties. I recently discovered a bog in Eastern Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Maountain area, (where my son attends East Stroudsburg University), that contains a population of CPs including S. purpuera, and noticed how different they were form the NJ and NY forms; the site also had a fine population of the native climbing fern, Lygodium palmatum, which I have yet to find in the NJ Pine Barrens, (after 25 years of searching for it), I'll post some images of them as well this year as the season progresses Happy growing!
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Post by pinglover on Apr 1, 2007 16:11:33 GMT
I am very interested in photos of the Lygodium palmatum. If it isn't too much trouble for you, would you be able to start a whole new thread over in Other Plants and link back to here?
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Post by pinglover on Apr 1, 2007 16:13:50 GMT
Egads, just realized you've got photos of the bog from the Pocono Mountain area! That's really great. Maybe a new thread in the NA News From the Field would be even better. If it's not too much trouble.
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Post by rsivertsen on Apr 1, 2007 16:41:58 GMT
Hey ping sis'! ;D sure thing! The interesting thing, I find, is that although the S. purps in both the NJ Pine Barrens and upstate NY are remarkably similar, very red, some all red, but with a more tyipcal gibba hood, relatively small, with little or no undulations, while the Pa. S. are much more like the southern variaties of venosa, much larger hoods, with more undulations, larger and greener plants with some red veination.
On the L. palmatum, it's closely related to the Curly Grass ferns (Schizea pusilla) which I find quite often in several Cedar Bog habitats, but still haven't yet found the climbing ferns in the NJ Pine Barrens. I found it growing in a ditch, in Pa., looking for CPs by the roadside (near the ESU Campus), of what seemed to be typical CP habitat, (canopy of oaks and conifirs, sandy gravel embankments, with an ericacaceous subcanopy, and an abundance of ferns and mesophytic swamp and bog areas) in late August last year, the Bracken ferns had already gone dormant, and were a brownish color, apparently already hit with an overnight frost, and noticed a curious bright green speckeling on the fronds of the brown Bracken, and took a closer look, and saw that they were indeed L. palmatum, one of the last few plants still in active growth, and with both sterile and fertile fronds, which is where you can see the relationship to Schizea pussila. I'll take some photos, and post them on the site with "Other Plants" as the season gets under way. I would also like to start a thread on the different isolated stands of S. purpurea to log the differences in these populations.
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Post by pinglover on Apr 2, 2007 2:15:50 GMT
der pingle here, (tapping foot) gimme photos ;) Just teasing with you. Whenever you get a chance is fine and toss in the purps too.
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Post by christophbelanger on Apr 12, 2007 0:27:42 GMT
Drosera Shmrosera.... Hey Matt!
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