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Post by Rick Hillier on Feb 18, 2007 20:53:45 GMT -5
I should have saved this for April 1. It's actually a Nep ramaspina that's not very happy about 40% humidity. The lid looks like the spoon on a heliamphora.
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Post by insectivore on Feb 18, 2007 23:38:29 GMT -5
Lol! it does look like a heli! Cya
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Post by Flytrap on Feb 18, 2007 23:45:19 GMT -5
cool! Don't you just love the colouring on ramispina ?!
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Post by Rick Hillier on Feb 19, 2007 8:18:22 GMT -5
I have two pitchers that came out with no lids like the photo shows, but they're about triple the size of the previous crop.
And they do get very black as they age.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by martin on Feb 19, 2007 9:50:44 GMT -5
This srtuck my mind...Would a Nepenthes & Heliamphora cross be possible?
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Post by vraev on Feb 19, 2007 10:56:53 GMT -5
whoa! A black dragon! I love that colour on that pitcher...its sooo unique!.
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Post by insectivore on Feb 19, 2007 12:53:47 GMT -5
Martin- No not the same ''DNA'' same as like why can't you mix a cat and a dog... Rick- I had the same problem when I got mites... BEWARE... Cya
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Post by Rick Hillier on Feb 19, 2007 15:03:35 GMT -5
MITES!!! My daughter played in that age group in baseball a couple of years ago. Now she's a SQUIRT I'll have to have a look-see when I get home tonight. I still suspect low humidity. In a basement with a 180-gallon aquarium, a 90-gallon aquarium, a 30-gallon sump (all three interconnected), a room full of plants and an adjacent room full of hanging laundry, the humidity in the middle of the plants is 40% right now. The rest of the house is so dry that we didn't even get condensation on the windows during the cold snap! Not good! >>> Rick <<<
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Post by tom on Feb 19, 2007 16:23:16 GMT -5
I agree with Insectivore, I think such a cross wouldn't be possible since they aren't even in the same family or related... Too bad it wasn't a cross, you could have called it Nepenthora metalissima 'Dark Prince' (I just realized that Mabudon has a bad influence over me, I can't stop to do puns related to metal now!)
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Post by lloyd on Feb 19, 2007 22:42:29 GMT -5
I think even for protoplast fusion you have to be in the same genus or family to be successful at "hybridizing".
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Post by martin on Feb 19, 2007 23:10:33 GMT -5
I think that kind of a great rule, think of the monstruosities you could get by crossing anything with anything...(not just talking about plants)...
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