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Re: [SANS] S.arborescens

At 07:15 PM 7/13/99 EDT, Kirk Pamper wrote:
>I also have a plant I bought (for a lot of money) at Grigsby's a couple of
>years ago labeled "S. powellii FC Lavranos 24534 (Somalia)".  I have serious
>doubts about this identity, since powelli, I believe, ought to resemble
>arborescens, and this plant looks like a tall, fat pinguicula.

I bought a similar plant from Grigsby's almost a year ago (also for a lot
of money). I don't have my database in front of me, but I believe that in
addition to the name, S. powellii, it also had "(TRUE FORM)" appended.

Interestingly, the flat of S. powellii plants was right next to the flat of
S. pinguicula in the greenhouse, and they looked very much the same to me.
Madelyn Lee happened by and I mentioned this similarity to her in passing.
Her comment (and I'm paraphrasing from memory here) was "It is only when
they are young that powellii and pinguicula look the same. As they get
older, the powellii will become much larger, whereas the pinguicula will
pretty much stay the same."

Not having seen a young S. powellii, I accepted her story and bought one. I
had seen pictures of mature powellii in the wild and I wanted to have one
of those in my yard, eventually.

I have this plant sitting next to my S. pinguicula in my greenhouse, and it
hasn't done much since I bought it. It still looks like pinguicula.

Mark
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