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Post by tom on Mar 30, 2006 13:22:31 GMT -5
Look to what we found today! unIDed (for the moment), more than 10 growth points, about 5 feet tall (yes mabudon, I told you 4, but it was to not scare you )... No more sun awake me in my bed now!
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Post by steve on Mar 30, 2006 13:41:57 GMT -5
wow .nice .. nice to see some surprises now and then
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Post by kenboorman on Mar 30, 2006 22:40:48 GMT -5
Very nice Tom! Congrats!
Ken
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Post by Syble on Mar 31, 2006 9:27:35 GMT -5
LOL, nice, now that's what I call a plant! Sib
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Post by Flytrap on Apr 4, 2006 1:16:13 GMT -5
That's a beaut, eh Tom? Okay, between you and I and the other thousand lurkers, you do take the plant out of your room when it blossoms right? Cuz' mine stink like cat pee or something whenever the Neps go into bloom.
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Post by tom on Apr 5, 2006 19:03:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the advice! I bloomed a nepenthes once, and didn't notice any smell, but with the size of this one, I,ll take care to put it away . Why do all interesting plants smell bad in a way or another!? (Amorphohallus, Bulbophyllum, Stapeliads and Nepenthes' flowers apparently...)
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Post by Syble on Apr 6, 2006 10:35:44 GMT -5
Don't forget some sarracenia flowers aswell I believe flave as the most offensive. It's all due to their pollinators, what they are trying to entice to pay a visit! Why try for a bee when flies are a 1000 times more plentiful! Thanks, Sib
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Post by Flytrap on Apr 6, 2006 11:25:56 GMT -5
Sib... I've never thought of it that way... that's funny when you wrap your mind around it, let's go for the ugly fly cuz' there's 1000's more out there then afterwards, we'll eat them for lunch. Oh the irony of it all!
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Post by Syble on Apr 6, 2006 11:55:55 GMT -5
The name of the plant excapes me at this time, something along the lines of rafflesia, it lives off of ficus trees and a few others that I cannot remember. It's parasitic, the huge flower (I believe a record holder) is brownish red - bright red(various oranges) and speckled. Common name includes, corps flower, flesh flower, carrion flower, ect... Smell intices swarms of flies, the flower then closes over night and reopens in the morning releasing the flies laidened with pollen to *hopefully* another flower. I'm a little fuzzy on the details, as it was in first year of my studdies that we watched a video that covered many of these interesting plant rareaties, so if something is a bit amiss... Sib
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Post by mabudon on Apr 6, 2006 12:02:29 GMT -5
pretty sure you're right on Rafflesia tha huge weird lookin stink blossom... And agreed, S.flava is the stinkiest CP I have in my collecton so far...
I also have some weird fuzzy purple-foliage plant (kinda like a big jagged African violet leaf patter) that has these little flowers that come out in late winter that STINK real bad too, good thing they're small...
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