taxonomy

Hi all, We've got a ginormous N. maxima encroaching on the Sarrs, and I assure you that the Nepenthes is going to lose the fight for space here. It's going to get some love that only a pair of pruners can give. The clone was purchased in the 90s from Wistuba by a friend of mine. I've been...

I'm concerned about nepenthes in particular, but I guess this question applies to all of horticulture. When I write about hybrids I'm never confident that I'm obeying the rules. Here are some of the variations I've seen. N. x ventrata The "x" indicates that this is a hybrid. I assume that this...

Some of the folks I work with have finally published their research on the Sarracenia family tree. I have been holding off on sharing details on this research forever and can't contain my excitement any longer! I know almost all of the authors personally (folks from UGA and the Atlanta...

The International Nepenthes Grex Registry (INGR) was an idea conceived and developed in an international forum conference on the internet forum www.pitcherplants.proboards.com in the later months of 2006. In August of the next year the proposal was presented at the Sarawak Nepenthes Summit 2007...

Hello to all! I am a brazilian biologist trying to finish my Doctoral thesis on carnívorous plants of Paraná State, southern Brazil. My main interests are cultivation, ecology, taxonomy and conservation of Drosera, Genlisea, Utricularia and Heliamphora. I hope I 'll find nice friends here! I...

So for those of you that I have not told already... This past Friday I was invited by a professor at UNC-Charlotte to come work on some research projects with him as a graduate school student. The goals of the project are 1) understanding natural genetic variation (including hybridization and...

Hello everyone, An incredible paper has been published by a collective of botanists that completely redefines nepenthes taxonomy. Not only are a few new species groups named in this paper, but many of the previously defined species have been reclassified as hybrids. An interesting paper, and...

I'm currently aware that the experts who could refute, comment, or otherwise answer this inquiry are generally unavailable. Namely Tamlin Dawnstar, Barry Rice, and Aaron May (sundewman). I've come across conflicting information regarding forms and cultivars of Drosera spatulata. Supposedly...

For the past 10 months, I had the good fortune of being able to grow and flower 2-7 plants of each of the seven tropical Byblis species. At first, I noticed that there seemed to be some variation between each species in terms of the how their leaves looked in very bright light. But being an...

Hi y'all, I was thinking it would be nice to have a section on TF dedicated to taxonomy and science talk (such as plant genetics, more of that cool pollen tube stuff) A lot of these conversations stay relegated to the chatbox, and I think it would be cool to have some of them more easily...

After this last round of renaming, reclassifying and splitting up species (the Sarracenia splitters? OMG) I see that Wistuba has renamed some things to align with new taxonomy classifications (have I said this correctly?). Looking at Wistuba's New Guinean plants, I see that there still exists a...

Three years ago, I picked up a sundew at Lowes on impulse. I ended up growing it in a terrarium with fir bark in the bottom (I know better now, don't worry.). Earlier this year, I decided to make a much more informed attempt at growing carnivorous plants, and transferred them into plastic pots...

even odds more wolves are going to be shot illegally this fall than were taken with tags last fall.....when these dang things were shoved down our throats we were told the target population for the entire population in MT, ID and WY was gonna be under 400 wolves and then controls would start in...

Hello everybody!:-D I got this pygmy some time ago marked as D. closterostigma. Doesnt seem to look much like it. I dont know what species this is could anyone help? Here are some pictures: the rosette is 35mm across flower detail (sorry a bit blurry) The drosera made a new plantlet on...

Hi everybody! :-D I just wanted to share some pics my binata flowers: aliciae as well Here are some of my new plants: S. leucophylla S. purpurea D. sp. Gran Sabana D. schizandra D. madagascariensis D. sp. Magaliesburg D. coccicaulis D.capillaris ..and now my...

I got this plant a year ago from Chuck Lyon. At the time I was told that it is either a German giant or an Australian giant. It only had one pitcher on it that was mature and this pitcher had a distinct hump on the back. Since then, plant has finally grown and matured and I wanted to ask for...

I know that taxonomy is a manmade classification and that a lot of research goes into it to determine genus, species, etc... I also know that if you ask one taxonomist you get one opinion and if you ask another, you get a differning one. Still, a lot of logic and genetics go into it. Having...

Could some1 shed some light on this subject? I have been wondering ... which nepenthes species split off from another? Which nepenthes is the most distantly and most closely related to the ancestor?

Is there a good place to learn plant taxonomy or a good starter for taxonomy in general? Does plant taxonomy just as much as herp taxonomy?

Hi all, Don't know if everyone here attends the ICPS forum, but if not, there has been a very interesting discussion about the taxonomy of tentaculata and hamata. I invite whoever is interested to see this thread...