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Carniflora News May 2015

Welcome. This issue of Carniflora News provides a summary of the last meeting, other recent events, happenings in the greenhouse and details of new events.

The current Executive

The 2015 executive is as follows:

President & Public Officer – Wesley Fairhall

Vice President – Robert Gibson

Treasurer, Secretary & Publicity Officer

– Kirk ‘Füzzy’ Hirsch

Committee Member 1 – Marina Chong

Committee Member 2 – David Colbourn

Committee Member 3 – Glen Moss

Committee Member 4 – Terry Watts

Renovations for Woodstock have been de-layed until July. Thus the May and June meetings will be at Woodstock Community Centre in the Group Room 1 as usual.

Check the ACPS Facebook page for updates:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Australasian-Carnivorous-Plant-Society/194049760656595?ref_type=bookmark

Upcoming ACPS events for 2015:

8th May 2015—David Colbourn, Pygmy Sundews

17th May 2015—Koi Pet and Garden Show, Fairfield

12th June 2015—Photo competition

10th July 2015—David Colbourn, Tuberous Drosera

14th August 2015—Details to be announced

11th September 2015—Details to be announced

Please bring plants for show or sale, or both. Please give consideration to presenting a talk, a demonstration, or show-ing a selection of your favourite photos at one of the forth-coming meetings.

The Society’s general email address is auscps@gmail.com The Society’s blog site is at: https://auscps.wordpress.com/ SEEDBANK—see pages 10-11 David Colbourn is now managing the Society’s seedbank and has arranged a seed swap with the Victorian Car-nivorous Plant Society [http://www.vcps.org/]. This has led to an increase in the variety of seeds available to members of both societies. Thanks David and the VCPS.

Summary of April Meeting:

The April meeting was a social event that did not have any formal presentation. Instead it was an excellent opportunity to catch up with other enthusiasts to discuss plants and related matters. There were some interesting plants brought in for display and also for sale.

The general meeting of 12th June will include a photo exhibition. Please start putting aside copies of your best photos now for this event. An-other desired outcome from this will be the selection of photos for the proposed calendar for 2016 that the Society plans to put together. So get out there and keep taking photos of these wonderful plants.

The ‘Plant of the Month’ competition was a contest between a range of beautiful plants including Byblis liniflora, Drosera hookeri, D. inter-media, Nepenthes maxima x bicalcarata, N. thorelii x maxima, Pinguic-ula gypsicola, Sarracenia psittacina ‘Large Red’, Utricularia praelonga and U. uliginosa. The leading plants in the competition were N. maxi-ma x bicalcarata and S. psittacina, with the Nepenthes taking top hon-ours. Well done David Colbourn for growing such a fascinating plant so well (see details on Page 3).

Nepenthes thorelii x maxima pitchers.

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Some plants for sale at the April mee ng. Byblis liniflora

Sarracenia psi acina ‘Large Red’

Selec on of Drosera, Pinguic-ula and Utricularia on display.

Kirk with an en-try in ‘Plant of the Month’

3 Nepenthes aristolochioides

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Plant of the Month – Nepenthes maxima x bicalcarata

David grows this plant in a fibre basket in a mix of coir peat, Styrofoam and a little sphagnum moss. This plant is grown with his other highland Nepenthes where it receives bright light and regular mist-ing. This hybrid is vigorous and has a wide peristome and a pair of small ‘fangs’ at the base of the lid. It is an attractive hybrid that is well-grown.

IUCN Carnivorous Plant Specialist Group

During the 10th Interna onal Carnivorous Plant Society Conference in Cairns, Rob Cantley officially launched the Interna onal Union for the Conserva on of Nature (IUCN) Carnivorous Plant Specialist Group [h p://www.iucn-cpsg.org/]. This group serves to preserve and study carnivorous plants in the wild. The work of this new group is to provide accurate and current Red List assessments for all carniv-orous plants. The results of which will inform conserva on efforts so they target the most threatened species. Everyone is welcome to contribute, whether by joining as a General Member or as a Specialist Member for a group of plants to help with this assessment work. I encourage everyone to get in-volved, for we all have a part to play in this effort to preserve the plants that fascinate us.

International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS) Conference 6th - 8th August 2016 The ICPS are pleased to say that The Carnivorous Plant Society has been given the 2016 Conference, and that Kew, working in partnership with the CPS, is to host the event at their renowned Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, England.

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Recent events:

Sunday 5th April 2015 – Carnivorous Plant Competition at the Royal Easter Show, Sydney.

More plants were entered at this year’s Carnivorous Plant completion at the Royal Easter Show in Syd-ney this year compared to last year. Many lovely plants were entered. The winners of each category are presented below:

Class 600: Venus Fly Trap - single plant in a pot not exceeding 200mm

1 Mr Owen O’Neil 2 Mr Owen O’Neil 3 Mr Greg Bourke

Class 601: Sundew - single plant in a pot not exceeding 200mm

1 Mr Greg Bourke 2 Mr Greg Bourke 3 Mr Owen O’Neil

Class 602: Nepenthes - single plant, minimum 3 pitchers, in a pot not exceeding 200mm

1 Mr Marc Barer 2 Ms Vicki Falconer 3 Mr Edmund Lau

Class 603: Nepenthes - single hybrid plant, minimum 3 pitchers, in a pot not exceeding 200mm

1 Mr Marc Barer 2 Mr Edmund Lau 3 Mr Edmund Lau

Class 604: Sarracenia - single plant, minimum 3 pitchers, in a pot not exceeding 200mm

1 Mr Owen O’Neil 2 Mr Greg Bourke 3 Mr Greg Bourke

Class 605: Sarracenia - single hybrid plant, minimum 3 pitchers, in a pot not exceeding 200mm

1 Mr Owen O’Neil 2 Mr Owen O’Neil 3 Mr Owen O’Neil

Class S6050: CHAMPION CARNIVOROUS PLANT

Mr Owen O’Neill – Sarracenia hybrid

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Drosera lunata in flower in the wild on the NSW North Coast.

Congratulations to all who entered, and very well done for all who won places, particularly Owen O’Neill for winning the champion carnivorous plant category. Thanks Owen for providing photos of the event.

Tech 2U [http://www.tech2u.com.au] once again sponsored the carnivorous plant completion at the Roy-al Easter Show. Thank you very much Tech 2U

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11th-12th April, 2015 Collectors’ Plant Fair, Clarendon

This year Greg Bourke, Marina Chong, David Colbourn, Laurie Dorfer, Gordon & Lynn Hanna, Philippe Rey-ter, and Richard Sullivan sold plants at the stall that the Society had booked. Jeff Drudge, Robert Gibson and Kirk Hirsch provided assistance at the stall on the Saturday – which was by far the busiest of the two days. A larger variety of plants was available for sale this year and the Society received $1,255.40 in com-missions from sales. Marina and Lyn did an amazing job running the stall, particularly during the hectic Saturday morning.

It would be excellent to see more members bring plants to sell and future Collectors’ Plant Fairs. There was much interest from visitors to the stall for things that were a li le different to add to their collec ons.

A always, par cipa on in this event provided hints for things to try or to do differently next me. Thank you everyone who helped make this event such a success.

There was interest in the plants for sale from the start.

Philippe watches over some Dionaea.

Sarracenia formed an eye-catching part of the plants for sale.

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Forthcoming events:

Sunday 17th May 2015, Koi Pet and Garden Show, Fairfield Showground

The next Koi Pet and Garden Show is on 17th May at the Fairfield Showground at Smithfield Road, Prairie-wood NSW 2176: h p://www.fairfieldshowground.com.au/index.php/major-events.html This is an ex-cellent venue to sell plants and let members of the public know how great are carnivorous plants. Please consider volunteering some me, and bringing some plants to sell. A roster is available on page 9. The contact given for this event is Mr. Gerard McDonald who can be reached on 0499 043 750.

Lyn in the stall. Darlingtonia grown by Richard.

Some Nepenthes for sale.

Jeff admiring some of the Sarracenia on sale.

Sarracenia x mitchelliana

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In the Greenhouse:

Easter storms and heavy rain – help cool the soil down, top up rainwater supplies and wake winter-growing sundews. Unfortu-nately one storm came with an abundance of pea-sized hail that damaged some plants – tearing holes in Sarracenia pitchers, de-taching some Drosera leaves, killing the growing point of some erect-growing tuberous Drosera, and bruising many leaves. Thankfully all plants will survive, and new leaves will be pro-duced to replace those now looking tattered.

Hail storm damage aside, Sarracenia leucophylla and its hybrids and S. rubra subspecies in particular are looking wonderful in the early autumn. Now is the time when Sarracenia seed is starting to be shed so be vigilant, or ideally place bags or light mesh over fruit, or harvest ripe an drying capsules in order to

collect seed. Please consider donating surplus seed to the seed bank.

Nepenthes seed capsules have ripened in recent weeks. Nepenthes flowers open sequentially but ripe fruit appear to open simultaneously and seed will blow away in moderate winds, or be washed away under heavy rain (and I have

found all this out the hard way). Thus it is best to bag or detach brown but not open fruit in order to max-imize the collection of avail-able seed.

Hail damage to Sarracenia leuco-phylla pitcher.

Hail s ll si ng on pots.

Nepenthes seed pods emp ed by a storm.

Sarracenia purpurea with ripe seed.

Drosera cis flora developing rose es. Drosera bulbosa subsp. coronata in bud.

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ROSTER for Koi Pet and Garden Show, Fairfield Showground — Sunday 17th May 2015.

Volunteers are required to help run the stall for this one day event. Please bring plants for sale. Entry to the event is free. Some details of this event are available:

http://www.fairfieldshowground.com.au/index.php/major-events.html

Volunteers are needed to run the stall; to help with plant sales; and to help answer questions and let visitors to the event know more about the plants we love to grow. Members are also encour-aged to bring plants to sell—for this event the Society is charging a 15% commission on plant sales. The location of the Fairfield Showground is shown in the map below.

Date Volunteers

Sunday 17th May

9 a.m.—4 p.m.

Ron and Marie Gauci (all day)

Marina Chong

Wesley Fairhall (11 a.m.—4 p.m.)

Sarracenia psi acina

AUSTRALASIAN CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOCIETY SEED BANK PAGE

********** NEW SEEDS **********The AUSCPS have managed to trade surplus seed with the VCPS, increasing our range of Carnivorous Plant seed species and varieties for members.

Seed packets are $1 each for members of the AUSCPS. Donations of seed is welcome. Please supply location data if available. Your Seed Bank Officer is David Colbourn. Email: davecolbourn@gmail.com

AUSTRALASIAN CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOCIETY SEED BANK

GENUS SPECIES Sub-Species Variety / Form QUANTITY LOCATION DATA Harvest Date

Drosera aliciae 4 Table Mountain R.S.A. December 2013

Drosera anglica 3

Drosera auriculata 1 Nowra September 2012

Drosera auriculata 1 Nowra October 2012

Drosera auriculata 4 Picnic Point, NSW September 2013

Drosera auriculata 2 Picnic Point, NSW September 2012

Drosera auriculata 4 South Australia October 2014

Drosera auriculata Red 1 Grampians, Vic

Drosera auriculata 1 S.A. ex Hort September 2012

Drosera auriculata Pink 1 Tasmania October 2010

Drosera auriculata 1 Adamstown, NSW

Drosera auriculata 1 Cameron Park, NSW September 2010

Drosera auriculata 1 Nerriga, NSW

Drosera auriculata Pink 1 Freycinet, Tas. October 2010

Drosera binata T Form 2 Mt Compass, S.A. December 2013

Drosera binata T Form 3 Freycinet, Tas November 2013

Drosera binata T Form 3 Freycinet, Tas December 2013

Drosera binata 2 Ahipam, Nth Is. N.Z.

Drosera capensis Red Leaf 1

Drosera cistiflora “Red” x pauciflora

2 October 2014

Drosera collinsiae 3 Mbuluri River, Swaziland, RSA October 2014

Drosera collinsiae 2 Usutlu, Swaziland, RSA October 2014

Drosera filiformis

Drosera gigantea gigantea 1 2014

Drosera hookeri 1 Bathurst, NSW October 2012

Drosera hookeri Pink Petals 1 ex hort September 2012

Drosera hookeri 1 Cameron Park, NSW September 2010

Drosera hookeri 6 Jamieson, VIC December 2012

Drosera indica 1 Triffid Park

Drosera indumenta D. macrantha “swamp Form”

6 October 2014

Drosera lunata 4 Werakata, NSW March 2013

Drosera macrantha Swamp Form 5

Drosera macrantha Swamp Form 1 September 2013

Drosera macrantha Swamp Form 1 October 2012

Drosera macrantha macrantha 1

Drosera macrantha macrantha 1 Darkan

Drosera macrantha 1 Clonbrook ?

Drosera macrantha macrantha Pink 1 W.A.

Drosera macrantha macrantha 1 SE of Hyden Rock

Drosera macrantha macrantha 1 Wongan Hills

Drosera macrantha macrantha 1 Cranbrook, W.A. October 2014

Drosera macrantha Northern Sand Plains Form

1 Eneabba, W.A. October 2012

Drosera macrantha planchonii 1

Drosera macrantha planchonii 1 Tasmania October 2010

Drosera macrantha Silky Petal Form 2 Wongan Hills, W.A.

Drosera natalensis 2 October 2014

Drosera natalensis 2 August 2014

Drosera peltata 1 July 2012

Drosera peltata 1 Walwa, Snowy Mountains, NSW? December 2012

Drosera peltata 1 Victoria October 2014

Drosera peltata 1 Walwa Trig, NSW July 2012

Drosera peltata 1 Beechworth, Vic October 2012

Drosera spatulata 3 Ahipara, Nth. Is. N.Z.

Drosera spatulata var. lovellae 1

Drosera stricticaulis 2 November 2014

Drosera tokaiensis 1 January 2013

Drosera venusta Pale Pink Flower 3 November 2013

Drosera yilgainensis 1 Holt Rock, W.A. September 2012

Drosera sp. 1 Lantau Island

Drosera sp. Auyan Tepui

Sarracenia leucophylla Red - open pollinated

2 April 2013

Sarracenia purpurea venosa rosea 1 April 2013

Sarracenia purpurea purpurea var. heterophylla 1

Sarracenia flava var. rubriocorpora 1 red-purple tube

Drosophyllum lusitanicum 5 Monte Picacho, S. Spain3 seeds per packet

Nepenthes suratensis 1 March 2015

alata ‘Mt Data’ x suratensis

6 April 2015

Roridula gorgonias 5 5 seeds per packet August 2014

Dionaea muscipula akai ryu 1

Dionaea muscipula red-green 1

Dionaea muscipula vigorous 1

Dionaea muscipula G4 x G37 1

Dionaea muscipula mixed 1