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  2. Rapid Prey Slinging Sundews It always looks sensational when the rapid catapults of some sundews fling their prey into the sticky tentacles of the trapping leaf in a matter of seconds or even milliseconds. The largest of the catapult-flypaper traps known to date, Drosera glanduligera, is even faster than the famous Venus flytrap. In the past, who would have thought a sundew could do that? The exciting research into these fast trapping movements in the genus Drosera only began in the 1980s with the still rather sedate Drosera burmannii / D. sessilifolia. We show with impressive recordings how research into the fast catapults progressed. Even today there are still surprises. In this film we show all known rapid catapult-flypaper traps and present video evidence of the tentacle movement of Drosera australis, a further rapid pygmy Drosera.
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  3. Hello all, I have some tuberous drosera seeds (D. rupicola, D. hookeri and D. lowriei) to sow as soon as possible. I will soak them in gibberellic acid before. I was advised to let them in the acid solution for 24h with a dosage between 150 and 250 PPM. Do you proceed the same (dosage and duration)? If not, how do you proceed? Thank you for your help. Regards.
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  4. Hey CP-fans! In April I had the chance to explore into the Sierra Madre range on the Philippine main island of Luzon. This region is very poorly known biologically, and rarely visited. After riding into the remote Casignan River valley on a rural jeep, the locals in Barangay Lipuga were really surprised to see the first foreign tourist that had found them ever...I got a warm welcome and a place to sleep in the new Barangay hall. The next day was spent on a 7.5 hours hike to the summit of Mount Bintuod (ca. 1935m asl), where we encountered a healthy population of N.ventricosa: dry season toll watching out of an emergent Dacrydium tree on the summit Dendrobium yeageri was abundant in the mossy forest view over the Casignan Valley and the Sierra Madre range towards north-east. Note deforestation and burning of the lower slopes. I think Mt. Bintuod is the highest peak in this range, but cartographers seem to have neglected the Sierra Madre so nobody can tell for sure. We climbed down the next day, taking a detour to see the ~30m Gumaniko waterfall: Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana and this is what I beleive a Grammatophyllum, can anybody tell more? Found growing on rocks on a dry ridge at around 800m On the way out, I could also verify a roadside population of N.alata, with the typical looks of northern Luzon forms. regards, Mathias
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  5. This plant just keeps on flowering. It has grown to fill its original pot so I re-potted into a terracotta pot earlier this week. My hope if that the plant will start to grow down the sides of the pot eventually as it is a moist surface. I'm really rather fond of this little utric
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  6. My ex-English teacher would be very disappointed with my grammar Of course, it should have been 'We'... Judging by the number of flower spikes it has put up, I'd say that the plant likes it
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