Volume 14 Number 2 October, November, December 2000 ISSN 1323€159 PR|CE gO.00 Free with Membershlp /l ) _ l)Toserq (rtnerv r a Newsletter of the Carnivorous plant Society of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES CONTENTS Page www.carnivorousplants.asn.au Chat Corner Jessica Biddlecombe 4-5 g PO Box The winners of the 2000 NSWCPS show 6 Kingsway West NSW 2208 C.P.s in the wild AUSTRALIA AndrewBroome 7-8 E-mall : [email protected] Carnivorous Plants Near Hermanus, South Af- Robert Gibson 8-23 rica COMMITTEE Never give up on Drossophyllum lussitanicum Sami Marjanen 24 Name Telephone(02) E-mail seed Preldcnt Kirstie Wulf 4739 5825 [email protected] Flyfap Question Corner 24 Vlcc Prcsldcnt Peter Biddlecombe 9554 367t Sccrctrry Jessica Biddlecombe 9554 3678 Trclsurer Jand Pearce Seed Brnk Menegcr Greg Bourke 9548 3678 sydneycamivorous@homail. com I Editor Greg Bourke 9s48 3678 [email protected] MEETINGS Llbnrinn Jessica Biddlecombe 9554 367E Meetings are held on the second Friday of each month . Time: 7:30pm- l0.00pm Web Mrstcr Chris McClellan [email protected] Venue: WoodSock Community Cente, Church Steet Burwood Commlttec Memberr Scou Sullivan Jose De Costa 9584 9893 Date Sperker Phnt of the Month Helmut Kibellis 9634 6793 l2 January 2001 Propagating Drosera - Greg Bourke Dionaea / Drosera MEMBERSHIP 9 February 2001 Ubicularia - Greg Bourke Uticularia / Byblis 2000-2001 (Financial Year) Subscription 9 March 2001 Nepenthes All members, single, family and overseas AU $20.00 Please make cheques or money orders payable to the No meeting in April (Good Friday) Carnivorous Plant Society of New South Wales. I I May 2001 Gemmae Swap Membership and correspondence should be forwarded to the Secretary at the above address. 8 June 2001 Heliamphora COVER DRAWING: D. trinemia by Robert Gibson l3 July 2001 Annual General Meeting 29 July 2001 Winter Swap meet All species Contributions, including articles, letters, photographs and drawings, to the joumal are greatly appreciated and may be forwarded to the 13 August 2001 Tuberous Drosera above address. The views expressed in thisjoumal arc not nec€ssar- ily those of the Camivorous Plant Society of New South Wales. Ar- ticles, photographs and drawinp remain copyright ofthe author and may not be reproduced without the author's permission. O Cernivorous Phnt Society of New South Weles 20fl). Chat Corner Jessica Biddlecombe When the meeting finnished a few of us stayed on for tea with Terry and Bronwyn. After the hectic day, the quiet time was much Happy new year C.P.ers. needed. what a show when the Rainbow Lorrikeets came down to Last Nevember Peter Biddlecombe gave his annual talk on repot- feed. It was a time to enjoy each others company and chat about the ting and taking cuttings of Nepenthes. We had a lot of fun with his talk. days events. Kirsty had the most enjoyment as she brought in her own plant to be re- Already there have been ideas thrown about on how to expand potted and got right into it. More involvement is good. the societies social calendar for bigger and better events for the year I wish to say Peter Furbank's plant of the month, his Sarracenia 2001. An exciting time for all to get involved. purpurea ssp. venosa was stunning and even to this day I am still say- Last July we saw the start of Greg Bourke's bogs. At this point I ing the same thing. The most beautiful Sarracenia I have ever seen. think only Greg could visualize how it would look when established as There have been a few communication breakdowns lately. Keep he had only begun on the yard. well Peter and I have seen it as it has the lines open. Don't get bogged down. progressed over time and I cannot express how impressed we are with What a December swap meet!!! Again the quality of plants was the advances made. while I don't want to spoil the surprise for every- WONDERFUL. When I say each year gets better than the last, I kid one I can only tell you it will be an event not to miss so put the winter you not! As each plant is brought in I'm awed by it and then another is meet on your calendar now! brought in. By the end of the day I am salivating like a rabid dog. On a personal note, I wish to thank all those who gave me sup- My faith has been vindicated and Nathan Clemens took out the port with news I received at the swap meet. To those that helped me Grand champion hophy, the "DALY AWARD"., for his spectacular pack up, gave verbal comfort, and rang later to offer help, Thank you. plants. While all the other plants deserved a prize there is always some Your Friendly C.Per that shout to be noticed. Congradulations! Jessica Everyone had a good time. The barbeque was fired up, lunches brought out and the Hot House raffle was drawn. Lucky Anna, a new p.s. Don't forget to come to the meetings. Remember with the wannel member won so we expect she will have loads of plants to enter into weather the sun is more intense so you may have to move certain plants the competition next year. Congrads! Please do not think your plants to more shade. are not good enough to enter as I took a Sarraceniajust because I liked Peter Frey entered two plants into the competition this year!! This it and it won aprizel staunch Orchid grower may be a closet C.Per! To all those males that gave me a hard time because my Ronald Nathan Clemens' father took loads of photos as did others so we MacDonald hair colour there will be no Macplants for you lot!! may get an album togeter for documentation of our show. A BRAG First we would like to thank Terry Nicholls for being a wonder- BOOK. ful host and his parents for the venue. Thank you to all those that con- fributed prizes, put up canopies, carried ftestles, plants, and all manner Editors Note: of things. Thank you to everyone who came. As usual the plants for On behalf of the society I would like to thank Chris McClellan sale were snapped up quickly and it was good to see a few more people for the outstanding work he has done for the societies web page. The with sale plants as it gave a greater selection of different types. time that Kirsty put in to exposing us to the world has both increased The society can hold its head high for the show it puts on! and diversified our membership. with chris' time and effort the web page is now a very exciting place to visit. The page is ever changing Reprinted from the NZCPS journal. and most importantly it brings the meetings to those who cannot make it to Burwood. It also has an up to date seed bank. Well done Chris! CPs in the Wild Andrew Broome (1999) As I was in Hamilton for the last NZCPS committee meeting ol Denis Daly Award (.Grand Champion) Nathan Clemens 1998 and so was Bruce Salmon, we, along with Richard Littin and our host -Len Trigg, decided to spend a bit of time the following day Dionaea Award - Nathan Clemens checking out some of the local sites for various species of carnivorous Dionaea Highly Commended - Andrew Clarke Plants. Once we finally got moving we headed towards paeroa (after a Drosera Award - Peter Furbank lunch break in Morrinsville). Our first stop was Kopuatai peat dome - Drosera Highly Commended - Richard Sullivan in the HaurakiPlains. We parked the car and crossed a couple of pad- Drosera Highly Commended - Richard Sullivan docks (avoiding the local bovines) and soon started seeing the odd Saracenia Award - Peter Furbank Drosera binata scattered around in the scrub and grass. Bruce kept say- Sarracenia Highly Commended - Kirstie Wulf ing that there were heaps more as well as D. spathulata and maybe a Sarracenia Highly Commended - Jessica Biddlecombe or Phil Reyter Utricularia close by so we kept wandering and looking. Eventually we Nepenthes Award - Jessica Biddlecombe came across a more open iuea and sure enough there were plenty ol Nepenthes Highly Commended - Phil Reyter very red D. binak to be seen as well as really nice clumps of D. spathu- Nepenthes Highly Commended - ?? lata. It took a while but eventually Bruce managed to find some scat- Cephalotus Award - Richard Sullivan tered examples of Utricularia novae-zelandiae as well although, as it Heliamphora Award - Nathan Clemens was not in flower, you really had to know what you were looking at. Darlingtonia Award - Nathan Clemens The CP relative neophyte, Richard, still isn't convinced I suspect. After Utricularia Award - fuchard Sullivan sampling a D. spathulata or two we decided to move on towards the Best Photo - Kirstie Wulf Coromandel and so trudged our way back towards the car. It was only Best Artwork - Luke Brousek on the way back that we got wet and peaty which was somewhat an- Plant and Owner Look Alike -Owen ONeil or Terry Nichols noying after being so careful. ReddestPlant-DHooper Once back on the road we drove through Paeroa and on into the Best Presented - Jessica Biddlecombe Coromandelarea. Eventually we found Puketui Rd, drove to the end ol Best Hybrid - Margaret Frey it and parked. Due to the recent rain the river there was quite high bul Greediest Plant - Maragret Frey we bravely forded it and walked up the track.