Re: Cruel Plant

>Does anyone grow Cruel Plant, Cynanchum ascyrifolium?
>Described as a well-behaved clump-former with vague semi-vining tendencies
>and waxy white flowers in axillary cymes.  Once it starts blooming, it
>continues for almost the entire  summer, virtually pest-free.

Hi Kitty,

I grow this plant and it is one of my favorites because of its 
restrained habit.  However, the individual flowers are so small, that 
it's difficult to imagine them entraping anything larger than very 
small flies. I honestly have never examined the flowers in great 
detail, but I will definitely do so this year.

In addition, I always thought Cruel Plant referred to  
Araujia_sericofera and that the insects so entraped were released the 
next day.  Perhaps someone else can add more information here.

-- 
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@wi.rr.com

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