wilnadon Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 This picture is in black-and-white but check out the photo in section B, this is where the insects are caught and eaten. Cool! First time I ever saw a picture of this species. http://jxb.oupjournals.org/content/vol52/i...B75072.8.2.jpeg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zongyi_yang Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 is this a monotype genus or is there other species? thanks. Zongyi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted December 1, 2003 Report Share Posted December 1, 2003 Just this species, and it looks like we're going to lose it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zongyi_yang Posted December 1, 2003 Report Share Posted December 1, 2003 if you search triphophyllum (spelling) on google, you can see a potted one. maybe some people have it in cultivation alrady? Zongyi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted December 2, 2003 Report Share Posted December 2, 2003 The university of Bonn/Wurzburg has gone through tremendous efforts to get it in culture and their conclussion is you've got to start from seeds and the plants are quite picky in requirements (e.g. like drosophyllum you can't transplant them and cuttings don't root) . To get the seeds you've got to send an expedition to tropical Africa during the mousson season... To answer your question: - the only place i know of (that once) grew T. peltatum is the Bonn uni. - I didn't find the photo you refer to, but the leaves can be spotten (like N. rafflesiana) in the pre-vine stage. Jan Schlauer is a researcher in the field of cp who has experience with these plants (at the uni), you might want to try to contact him via the omnisterra cp-digest... Fred http://dionee.gr.free.fr/bulletin/txt/d_44_a.htm (in French) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggi_Hartmeyer Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Jan Schlauer and Heiko Rischer held most interesting lectures on Triphyophyllum peltatum at the Y2K ICPS world conference in San Francisco. They documented how the plants are successfully grown at the Wuerzburg University (Germany). This lectures contain many slides of different growing stages, flowers and the amazing flying seeds. Both lectures can be seen on our video documentation of the San Francisco ICPS conference. More information on the movie can be found on the video-page of our website www.hartmeyer.de. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Siggi, are there commercial sources for this plant yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggi_Hartmeyer Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 The only living plants of Triphyophyllum that I ever saw (and I know several nice CP collections) are growing at the University Wuerzburg, under very humid tropical conditions. Meanwhile Jan Schlauer and Heiko Rischer changed their jobs and are thus no longer there, but I am nearly certain that the University do not give away any plants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted December 3, 2003 Report Share Posted December 3, 2003 Let's not beat around the bush, it's an illusion to think this plant will ever be available even to the most serious grower. Frederick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggi_Hartmeyer Posted March 19, 2008 Report Share Posted March 19, 2008 Coming up 2008: For all who like to know more about this tropical liana, Irmgard and I are editing a film which will show the whole life-cycle of T. peltatum with amazing pictures. We planned to realise this documentation since 2000 based on photos donated by Jan Schlauer and Heiko Rischer, but found never the time. Meanwhile we received also unique video shot from its habitat in Sierra Leone by Stewart McPherson, and we were able to film a plant with trapping leaf at the EEE in Bonn, so decided to realise the project now. The film is part of a new DVD (Triple"E" meets Triphyophyllum ) which we will introduce at the EEE 2008 in Mira (Italy). However, the bad news is that this DVD will not be available for free download during the next years. Screenshots of our new film can soon be found at our website www.hartmeyer.de. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggi_Hartmeyer Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 As promised above, and to provide a little appetizer, here are two first screen shots from our T. peltatum footage for the EEE in Mira. The first picture shows the trapping leaf of a T. peltatum growing at the Botanical Gardens of Bonn (Germany). The solarize-effect highlights some details (yellow: tentacle-stalks, red: tentacle head, blue: mucilage remains). The second picture was made with our new USB-microscope, showing an uncurled Drosophyllum leaf to demonstrate the eye-catching similarity of the mushroom-like glands of both genera, which are very different from Drosera glands. More pictures will follow during the next months, however, I will keep some "pearls" for my lecture in Mira, I guess you understand that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siggi_Hartmeyer Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 Well, earlier than expected by myself, here are two more screenshots: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obregon562 Posted April 27, 2008 Report Share Posted April 27, 2008 amazing! just...incredible! this plant is almost like the bigfoot of cps! never thought a whole documentory would be made about it! great pics too! thanks so much Siggi! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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