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Submitted: 16 September 2003
In June of 2000 I attended the 2000 ICPS conference at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, California. While there I purchased a small Drosera regia plant from the vendor, “Marie’s Orchids.” The label identified it as “REG-1,” but I have never discovered the significance of this marking on the label.
Many times during the better part of three decades I have germinated seed of Drosera regia with great success. Success, that is, in germination only, because invariably within a few weeks the seedlings would die for reasons unknown. I obtained this plant with just the same expectations, any confidence in my ability to successfully grow Drosera regia had been lost long ago with the lives of those many seedlings and from the stories told by those few who had reported success with this plant. Their complicated tales of successful cultivation made it sound like Drosera regia was the Drosera from hell, at least that’s how it seemed to me then.
Soon, I was to discover that my former experiences with Drosera regia would be distant, fading memories. Under my cultural conditions this clone Drosera regia ‘Big Easy’ has been just that, big and easy to grow and propagate. It produces leaves a maximum of 23 cm (9 inches) long (Figure 6). It has never gone dormant, never flowered or even initiated a flower stalk. Several times I have managed to propagate it from leaf cuttings floating in jars of pure water (see detail in Figure 3). It readily initiates buds and plants on any and all pieces of severed root. I have propagated hundreds of plants this way and have traded them widely.
Other than its ease of cultivation, which is its most distinctive characteristic, its compact size is a distinctive characteristic of this cultivar.
--- William Joseph Clemens • Tucson, Arizona • USA
2022年01月28日 03点01分
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。。我来说实话,ICPS这些园艺种看不出什么特别的,就这也能命名
2022年01月28日 05点01分
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