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Post by twoton on Jul 2, 2008 18:35:43 GMT -10
Giant potato....I'da gone for it. There are too few giant CPs in this world, as it is :-)
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Post by twoton on Jul 1, 2008 17:21:37 GMT -10
Easy, boy - you're talking about my family here...
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Post by twoton on Jul 1, 2008 3:59:29 GMT -10
That's right, Cindy. A ventrata pitcher. But it's filled with Nepenthes jelly, a mixture of Jell-O, cold tea and (unopened) pitcher fluid. It's part of the " Nepenthes Dinner this cute CP-growing cafe-restaurant cum CP garden on Taiwan's East Coast has on their menu. The rest of the meal is just rice with pork chops and veggies, garnished with a pitcher or two, but the drink was very original. Tasty, too!
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Post by twoton on Jun 27, 2008 23:37:50 GMT -10
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Post by twoton on Jun 27, 2008 22:28:22 GMT -10
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Post by twoton on Jun 27, 2008 22:25:03 GMT -10
It's actually two books: Volume One and Two. From the looks of it, it might dethrone Clarke's and Lee's photographical work and become the new standard for plant porn.
What's nepenthes alba? The only thing I found was an old name for N. gracilis.
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Post by twoton on Jun 26, 2008 0:11:20 GMT -10
Most of them, if you wait long enough.
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Post by twoton on Jun 15, 2008 23:13:32 GMT -10
Ah yes, I forgot you're a fellow Taiwanese! I'll check out your collection as soon as I get around to it!
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Post by twoton on Jun 15, 2008 3:55:01 GMT -10
Damn, Jens, yours must be the largest TM hybrid collection between Hamburg and Spitsbergen!!
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Post by twoton on Jun 15, 2008 3:51:20 GMT -10
Hi flymoon
thanks for the invite :-) Where are you located? Mine also keeps producing tiny pitchers....but that's not natural, especially not for a species that's actually the 80-ton T-rex of the genus. I'm just waiting for a buyer who'll provide it with less punishing conditions...
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Post by twoton on Jun 12, 2008 22:25:33 GMT -10
That' s IT! It's a tupaia! Damn, why couldn't I think of it...
Thanks!
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Post by twoton on Jun 11, 2008 1:21:12 GMT -10
Is that the original pink color on the last set, or are those three pix overexposed? Amazing color, nevertheless...
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Post by twoton on Jun 11, 2008 1:16:30 GMT -10
Hi everyone,
thanks for the nice words.
rainforest: back when I had about 300 plants, hundreds flowered and I tried to hybridize a few. Alas, something always went wrong, due to my lack of experience, and the seeds never sprouted. I now have only around 90 plants left, six of them in flower, and one pregnant - a bastard whose Mom is thorelii x densiflora" and the father unknown, thanks to the busy insects in my greenhouse and my lack of a security camera. I hope those seeds will be more successful, though.
cloudsitter: I live in Northern Taiwan, where the winters are cold (down to ~46 F) and the summers are hot (= tropical). Some plants can't take the extremes - see the rajah, which is now three years old....I expect it to die within the next year, just like the other four rajahs I experimented with. (Yes, this is the last one I try out)
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Post by twoton on Jun 10, 2008 3:17:24 GMT -10
Some stuff from the other day. Click thumbnail for larger pic. N. sanguinea N. x ventrata N. maxima "dark" x (x trusmadiensis) with golden spider (which disappeared into the pitcher, never to be seen again) N. alata "red" N. truncata x stenophylla N. x "Red Leopard"; ventricosa x maxima N. rajah (Yep. That's right ;D) N.x "Facile Koto"; [thorelii x (x mastersiana)]; upper N. x ventricosa x (x trusmadiensis) Adenium obesum, aka Desert Rose. Despite its humid climate, Taiwan is the world's foremost Adenium hybridizer. Go figger...
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Post by twoton on Jun 9, 2008 2:48:59 GMT -10
I'm 100% sure there's also a small mammal (lemur or colago or somesuch), because someone touched upon the subject in his talk last year at the Kuching Nep Summit.
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