Название: Carnivorous plants of the world
Автор: James Pietropaolo, Patricia Pietropaolo
Издательство: Timber Press, Incorporated
Год: 1997
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 236,235
Размер: 60,2 МБ
Язык: English

Carnivorous plants are enjoying unprecedented popularity today. Their popularity stems from the realization that they are relatively easy to grow combined with the mystique that surrounds "man-eating plants." Carnivorous plants are immortalized in Saturday morning cartoons, comic books, the late, late shows and monster movies. The fact that carnivorous plants have the ability to lure, capture, and digest organic matter from the animal world has fascinated people for generations. Carnivorous plants rearrange the natural order of nature where plants are usually the meal, not the consumer of animal protein.
The intent of this book is to provide cultural data for growing carnivorous plants, including information pertaining to soils, pots, containers, light, water and humidity, dormancy, fertilization, feeding, pest control, germination of seeds, propagation (sexual and asexual), and hybridization.