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[Fernando Rivadavia]

Hello to all,

Have any of you received the December 2007 CPN issue yet??? :)

Best Wishes, Fernando Rivadavia

Edited by Fernando Rivadavia, 11 December 2007 - 03:20 AM.

[Marcel van den Broek]

Haven't seen it here on the mainland yet Fernando.

[BobZ]

Fernando, your article about G. pygmaea tubers is a mind-blower!

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[Siggi_Hartmeyer]

Four days ago "CPN" arrived also in Germany. Fernando your article is most interesting: well done! However, I hesitate to let my G. pygmaea dry out to force the development of a tuber. The plant grows nicely without any dormant period since about two years now and it would be a pity to eventually kill it with an artificial drought. Or would you encourage me to try it?

[Pyro]

Hello Fernando,

I was quite bummed out when Barry told me my article was bumped in favor of one that had a major impact. But Barry assured me that I would be okay with it when I saw what replaced it. And indeed he was correct. Very impressive find.

[Andreas Fleischmann]

Dear Bob,

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Hhmm, that's strange. I can only find CPN back issues until the September 2007 volume at the "members only" site. Has it been removed again?

Unfortunately, I did not receive the December 2007 issue yet, thus I will have to wait impatiently until I can finally read Fernandos article.

Andreas

[Marcel van den Broek]

Don't feel alone Andreas.
I haven't got it yet either

Waiting....

[BobZ]

Andreas & Marcel,

WHOOPS! Sorry. I did indeed upload the PDF file, but I forgot to add the December 2007 link to the index page. I thought that I had checked all the pages, but I missed that one.  It is now fixed.

Thank you very much for informing me about my blunder. Without your assistance, others would have become equally frustrated.

[Fernando Rivadavia]

Hello to all,

Sheila: I am also still amazed that this was missed for so long, but I guess that can be explained by the fact that tubers are probably only attached to rosettes for a very shot time at the end of the wet season. Before that, there is only a rosette and after only a lonely tuber which you could only say belonged to a Genlisea through DNA sequencing. Maybe there's also a short period at the end of the dry season when you can find a new rosette still attached to a dying tuber. So you have very narrow windows to observe tubers with rosettes, which is why it eluded everyone for such a long time.

Siggi:  Please note that I wrote that only one form of G.pygmaea (the large one) seems to form tubers. I can not vouch for all forms, but a middle-sized one further west did not have tubers at the same time of year.

Pyro: sorry for bumping your article, I'm sure it must be something interesting too! ;)

And for those of you who want to badger Andreas F., he's got tubers & seed of this plant!!! :):)  Please tell us how the tubers have behaved over the past 6 months!!


Best Wishes,
Fernando Rivadavia


P.S.  I've lost contact with Thomas Carow, could someone give me his e-mail? Please write me: fe_riva@uol.com.br

Edited by Fernando Rivadavia, 23 December 2007 - 08:19 AM.

[Pyro]

Fernando Rivadavia, on 23rd December 2007 - 06:17 AM, said:

Pyro: sorry for bumping your article, I'm sure it must be something interesting too! ;)

No worries :)

Come March (I hope) you can evaluate for yourself if my article is interesting :)