I ran into a lady name of Leilani who keeps a couple of large greenhouses in Washington on the Olympic Peninsula at the amazing Glass Flowers exhibit in Harvard's Museum of Natural History last Friday. Of course we got to discussing interesting plants to grow, and because we were standing in front of the ...
... carnivorous plants, the discussion turned to CPs.
I'll leave out the boring details, but the one thing that came up that i have to ask the forum is regarding the original extent of the VFT habitat. She asserted that the VFT was native to the Olympic Peninsula (i believe that was it - somewhere in Washington, at least) as well as the Carolinas. Now, i know what i've read, and i've read it a lot of places, and i told her so myself: the VFT is native to just the Carolinas. She replied again that it was in Washington as well. I asked if perhaps it was naturalized there, and she said that it was indigenous to the area. So, has anybody heard of this before? I am inclined to disbelieve, but she seemed to know a lot about the other topics we discussed, so i'm willing to give her story a chance.
Thanks
-Nate L
... carnivorous plants, the discussion turned to CPs.
I'll leave out the boring details, but the one thing that came up that i have to ask the forum is regarding the original extent of the VFT habitat. She asserted that the VFT was native to the Olympic Peninsula (i believe that was it - somewhere in Washington, at least) as well as the Carolinas. Now, i know what i've read, and i've read it a lot of places, and i told her so myself: the VFT is native to just the Carolinas. She replied again that it was in Washington as well. I asked if perhaps it was naturalized there, and she said that it was indigenous to the area. So, has anybody heard of this before? I am inclined to disbelieve, but she seemed to know a lot about the other topics we discussed, so i'm willing to give her story a chance.
Thanks
-Nate L