mobile Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Rat-eating plant declared a new species seven years after award-winning debut at Chelsea Flower Show Read more: http://www.dailymail...lower-Show.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel van den Broek Posted December 26, 2011 Report Share Posted December 26, 2011 Nice for Robert to have a Nep named after him, long overdue given his massive work with and on the species. congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borneo Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 (edited) Thanks Marcel! But what an awful newspaper article! I gave a long telephone interview to an intelligent journalist from the Independent a couple of days back, so I do hope that some better and more accurate articles will be forthcoming - PLEASE! I, and every taxonomist who has seen the plants, have known this is a distinct species for many years but until it was published, we couldn’t talk about it, as we knew it was being described elsewhere and it became a race to publish. Martin's paper will be appearing in the December issue of the Nordic Journal of Botany (NJB) any day now but an abstract is already available: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1756-1051.2011.01449.x/abstract Martin Cheek actually wrote the paper 1 ½ years ago and it’s taken that long to get it published. If you see the entire paper – which will be downloadable free I believe from the NJB website - he refers in the paper to our most recent Chelsea appearance being in 2010. So slowly do the cogs of academia turn! The paper goes into detail of course as to why this is a new species. Not just the fact that it has wings on the pitchers when N. truncata does not, or that the peristome ribs are so widely spaced but the flower is different and the glandular structure under the lid is utterly different, being pretty much identical to N. veitchii and nothing like N. truncata. As to the name, I didn’t have an inkling what name Martin would choose until after the paper was written. Can’t say I mind really. So, it’s time to change your labels I’m afraid! Merry Christmas everyone and happy New Year! Rob Edited December 27, 2011 by Borneo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevnep Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Very nice its about time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile Posted December 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Congratulations on being recognised for your work Rob. [...] But what an awful newspaper article! I agree, they even misprinted the species name as Nepenthes Robcantleyt (with a t instead of i). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manders Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Excellent news. Time for a repot and re-label! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osmosis Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Is King of Spades the same species - i.e. is the BE-3307 cross a hybrid or the new species? Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockhom Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 (edited) Is King of Spades the same species - i.e. is the BE-3307 cross a hybrid or the new species? Dave Hi Dave, I am providing some answers on my blog: http://carnivorousockhom.blogspot.com/2011/12/nepenthes-robcantleyi-aka-nepenthes.html The three cultivar: 'King of Spades', 'King of Hearts' and 'Queen of Hearts', the 6 remaining unnamed dark pitchered "truncata" (all grown from seed collected in 1997 from that legendary extinct population) and all the babies 'Queen of Hearts' x 'King of Spades' should all be relabeled now as N. robcantleyi. All the best, François. Edited December 27, 2011 by Sockhom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James O'Neill Posted December 27, 2011 Report Share Posted December 27, 2011 Super to hear that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borneo Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 (edited) Hey François, You're very fast with your blog. Nice one! Just a little correction if I may: You've married me off to Diana! She's Diana Williams not Diana Cantley. Now she's seen your blog and you've gone and put ideas in her head. This could prove very costly for me. At the very least I shall have to take her out for an expensive dinner to calm her down. The alternative would be even more expensive! Edited December 28, 2011 by Borneo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobile Posted December 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 You've married me off to Diana! She's Diana Williams not Diana Cantley. Now she's seen your blog and you've gone and put ideas in her head. This could prove very costly for me. At the very least I shall have to take her out for an expensive dinner to calm her down. The alternative would be even more expensive! Well here's an idea for the reception: http://www.neofarmthailand.com/index.php?lay=show&ac=article&Id=105724&Ntype=6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockhom Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 Hi Rob! I'm sorry, I hope I did'nt put you in a difficult position! Things are corrected on the blog now ;-) Hopefully the rest of the post is correct. All the best, François. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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