beercanoo Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 Heres a short peice by the telegraph on the new nepenthes found on mt victoria,phillipines. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews...hilippines.html Enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HESSEL Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 the same peice can be found in the sun paper today. like the photo of the mouse. not a rat has they say in the papers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactusChris Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 the same peice can be found in the sun paper today. like the photo of the mouse. not a rat has they say in the papers. And Stuart was on Radio 4 this morning telling the story of the plant's discovery. Very interesting chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsi...000/8207018.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beercanoo Posted August 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) Is it me, or is that mouse quite happily alive and more than likely just having a bath (in exchange for a fecal deposit..?) in what my lecturer might call a symbiotic relationship rather than the predatory inclination so described? Alsoooooo...when can we get some in cultivation!!!! Edited August 18, 2009 by beercanoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An D Smith Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Did anyone notice that the photo of the mouse in the pitcher was actually Nepenthes northiana and not N. attenboroughii. Beercanoo - Two years ago, Stew distributed several hundred seed of this species to growers all over Europe. The germination rate wasn't very high and I have heard that Borneo exotics have lost all theirs in culture. How many are left is anyone's guess but maybe Wistuba will be able to offer it in the future. Seedlings have recently been sold for around 100 pounds. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vraev Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Lol!! Looks like they ripped it off the other "Sun" or whatever newsletter. Well.... its a great way to throw ppl off though. LOL! Although I don't think the trick will last too long as the moment ppl search N. attenboroughii, wikipedia's pic comes up. I wonder how much a N. rajah would have cost in those early days of discovery until the conception of TC clones. Must have been a un-quenchable craze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amar Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 It was in our paper too yesterday. A free daily paper...here's the translation. (Oh, they showed the picture of the northiana with the mouse.) What was first, horror movie or nature? A recent discovery of British biologists reminds a lot of the musical 'little shop of horrors': High up on the slopes of Mt. Victoria on the Philippines they have found the largest carnivorous plant in the world. Over a meter long the shrub does not only devour insects, but also fully grown rats and dissolves these in acid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsivertsen Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 Funny how wrong information travels better than an accurate one! Now, a NYC news entity is pushing that envelope with another twist! http://www.nydailynews.com/money/business_...rats_whole.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amar Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Funny how wrong information travels better than an accurate one! Now, a NYC news entity is pushing that envelope with another twist!http://www.nydailynews.com/money/business_...rats_whole.html Can't wait till my Nepenthes burbidgeae becomes 4 feet big... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic2 Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Can't wait till my Nepenthes burbidgeae becomes 4 feet big... From here, it's only a question of time until one of the toilet-paper tabloids runs the headline: "Triffid Ate My Sherpa, admits Scientist" LOL, V2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyoliver Posted August 23, 2009 Report Share Posted August 23, 2009 I'm still waiting for: "we can now speak to Stewart from inside a N. Attenboroughii. Steward how is it in there..?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic2 Posted August 24, 2009 Report Share Posted August 24, 2009 I'm still waiting for:"we can now speak to Stewart from inside a N. Attenboroughii. Steward how is it in there..?" "BURP!!" "Well, we seem to have lost our link with Stewart for the moment, so on to the weather..." V2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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