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BAY AREA CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2001
January 21, 2001
Geoff Wong, Editor
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Bennington Street, Manteca, CA 95336, with a specific request that you
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anything. We will automatically continue to send you future editions.
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NEXT MEETING
Date: February 3, 2001, Saturday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Place: Randall Museum, San Francisco
Program: Ron Parsons: "Pings Plus..."
Ron Parsons, a local San Francisco photographer, is well known for his
professional quality botanical photos. He has given presentations at
many horticultural meetings, both local and internationally. A long
time orchid enthusiast, Ron contracted the CP disease a few years ago
and has seen his orchid collection gradually invaded.
Ron will treat us to inspiring photos of many different flowers and
plants. His favorite CPs are the Pinguicula, whose showy blooms hold
their own against the orchids. Ron grows most of his specimens under
artificial light in a relatively small space. He will describe his
cultivation techniques, which should be of special interest to those
with indoor gardens and less than optimal natural growing conditions.
The meeting starts at noon with the usual social, display, and plant
sale (10% of sales and auction go to BACPS). Announcements begin at
approximately 1:00 p.m, followed by the program, raffle, auction, and
business meeting. Members are encouraged to bring plants for the
display table, auction, and raffle. Also, the Randall Museum
appreciates donations of extra plants for its collection and educational
programs.
DIRECTIONS TO THE RANDALL MUSEUM: From either the Bay Bridge or the
Peninsula, follow the freeway signs to Mission Street and get off at the
Mission/Duboce exit. Stay on Duboce Avenue, which runs into Market
Street. Make a 45 degree left turn onto Market Street. Immediately
after the Safeway store, make a 45 degree right turn onto 14th Street.
Go up the hill. One block after crossing Castro Street, the main road
curves to the left and becomes Roosevelt Way. Continue 1/4 mile, and
turn left onto Museum Way, just before the main road curves right and
continues up the hill. (If you reach Levant Street, you have gone too
far.) Go to the end of Museum Way and park.
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: From Downtown San Francisco on Market Street
take the K, L, or M subway or the F streetcar. Either (1) Get off at the
Castro Street Station (Castro and Market). Walk up Castro to 16th
Street. Walk uphill on 16th one block. Go right on Flint, and take the
footpath up to the museum. Or (2) To avoid walking uphill, get off at
the Church Street Station (Church and Market). Transfer to the 37
Corbett bus. Ask the driver to let you off at the closest bus stop to
the Randall Museum (Roosevelt Way and Museum Way). Walk to the end of
Museum Way.
The Randall Museum is located at 199 Museum Way, telephone (415)554-
9600. There is plenty of free parking.
SPRING MEETING: At the Spring 2001 meeting on May 26, Barry Meyers-Rice
plans to speak about endangered Sarracenia and conservation efforts to
maintain their populations. Save this date on your calendar.
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Mike Ross
Welcome everyone to the "true" first Millennium meeting of the BACPS. I
was recently reminded by Joe Mazrimas that this year is the ninth
anniversary of the BACPS. Joe was wondering if we should do anything
special for the 10th. Let's discuss this at the next meeting, as a
planning committee should be formed should we elect to celebrate with a
wing-ding affair of some sort.
Hope to see a good turn out at our next meeting. Cheers, Mike.
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BUG DAYS PLANNING MEETING
Geoff Wong
As mentioned in the Fall 2000 Newsletter, the Randall Museum organizes
this major annual children's event to introduce kids to the world of
insects and related creatures. They have invited BACPS to join them
this year, since CP are a perfect bridge between the bug and plant
worlds. The tentative plan is for us to help with a display table,
plant sale, short educational lectures or demonstrations (on culture,
habitats, flowers, digestion, etc.), and hands-on stations where
volunteers show kids how the different plants trap insects. The actual
Bug Days event will be held on Saturday, May 19.
The kick-off planning meeting at the Randall Museum will take place on
Wednesday, January 31, 2001, at 2:00 p.m. If you are interested in
helping in any way, please contact Geoff Wong or just show
up at the meeting.
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MINUTES FROM MEETING ON NOVEMBER 4, 2000
Gary Dughi
The November meeting, held at the Randall Museum in San Francisco, began
with a show of plants brought in by some of the members. Each person
shared some information about the plants he brought in.
Peter D'Amato showed a Drosera tubistylus; a tuberous winter grower from
W. Australia. He also displayed a Pinguicula gigantea, discovered by
Alfred Lau, which has glands on both sides of leaves. This plant does
well in heat. He brought two species that do well in terrariums:
Drosera madagascariensis "Botswana" will grow to 12 inches in terrarium
but can take frost, and Pinguicula emarginata 'B' which, has no winter
rosette. Peter also showed Drosera brevifolia, U.S.A. native, grown as
annuals.
Phil Faulisi brought in a nice Nepenthes hookeriana hybrid, a lowland
type. He informed the group that this makes a superb terrarium/hothouse
plant.
Don Elkins showed some nice Sarracenia hybrids all grown outdoors north
of Santa Barbara including Sarracenia leucophylla X purpurea X
oreophylla X alata, S. leucophylla X rubra - pitchers best in fall (much
larger), and S. psittacina X rubra
Tim Krug brought in various tropical and temperate Pinguicula including
Pinguicula gigantea, P. ehlersiae - white flower form, P. montezumae, P.
emaculata, P. zecheri, P. gypsicola, P. laueana (red flower). He uses a
course mix of perlite, charcoal, sphagnum (small amount) in a shallow
water tray for these plants.
Bruce Thomas and Kevin Weaver brought in nicely grown specimens that
reside outdoors in San Francisco: Sarracenia purpurea and Dionaea
muscipula 'Red Dragon'. They also displayed terrarium grown specimens
of Nepenthes 'Judith Finn' and Nepenthes ventricosa; grown using metal
halide light, at 80% humidity, at around 60-70 degrees F. Pinguicula
moranensis x ehlersiae, Drosera spathulata plants rounded out their
display. Their Nepenthes plants receive feedings of crickets obtained
from pet shops to keep them growing strong.
Mike Ross displayed a nice specimen of Heliamphora heterodoxa. This was
originally grown in perlite and peat in a shallow pot but is now grown
in a deeper terra cotta pot with peat pellets and no drainage. This
plant grows in a greenhouse and flowers much more in the peat pellets
than in the perlite mix.
Also shown was Nepenthes 'Savanah Rose' - a Bruce Bednar hybrid mini
plant.
David Gray spoke about several aspects of the BACPS and the
International Carnivorous Plant Society (ICPS). David was recently
elected to the ICPS Board. He informed us that the membership records
should be running more smoothly now that Cindy Slezak is handling this.
The ICPS Seed Bank, a valuable resource, will be handled by a new person
in Davis. David urged people to donate seeds to the Seed Bank. He
recently donated Darlingtonia seeds form Sand Lake, Oregon; the
northernmost population of Darlingtonia. He pointed out that the
coastal populations differ from the inland populations.
Albert Huntington volunteered to maintain a new BACPS website. The
website at the old address is not currently being maintained.
Geoff Wong reminded people that the Randall Museum will host "Bug Days"
on 19 May 2001. This is a children's program with presentations on
different bugs. BACPS could show and sell plants at this event. The
Randall Museum will hold an organizational meeting on 31 January 2001
for those interested in participating. Contact Geoff if you wish to
sell any plants at this event.
The attending members decided to maintain the current society officers
for this year.
Peter D'Amato shared some of his experiences as a guest on the Martha
Stewart show. He said that it was a good experience overall and was
good advertising for the business and his book.
Some good plants were raffled after the business portion of the meeting.
After the regular meeting at the Randall Museum, many of the members
attended an informative and interesting tour of the plant Conservatory
at Golden Gate Park. The tour, led by Stephen Pree and Scott Medbury,
included growing and propagating areas not open to the general public.
The entire Conservatory is closed to the public while storm damage
repairs are completed. The greenhouse should open in September of the
year 2003. Several Nepenthes ventricosa plants from the Conservatory
were raffled to attendees.
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TREASURER'S REPORT
8/19/00 & 11/4/00
Joe Mazrimas
INCOME DEBIT BALANCE
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Dues $60.00
Silent auction $74.00
Sellers $101.00
Raffle $79.00
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TOTAL $314.00
Newsletter $56.39
Postage $47.85
Randall Museum(11-4-00) $25.00
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TOTAL $129.24
Current Balance $ 184.76
Previous balance(6-03-00) $1727.23
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Sub-total $1911.99
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Total Yearly Balance $1911.99
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BACPS CALENDAR
2001
January 31 Randall Museum Planning Meeting for Bug Days
February 3 Winter Meeting, Randall Museum
May 19 Bug Days, Randall Museum
May 26 Spring Meeting, U. C. Botanical Garden
August (date TBD) Summer Meeting, Randall Museum
November 17 Fall Meeting, U. C. Botanical Garden
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BACPS CONTACTS
President Mike Ross
Vice-President (shared) Larry Logoteta
& Bill Weaver
Secretary Judith Finn
Treasurer Joe Mazrimas
Program Coordinator Geoff Wong
Newsletter Editor Geoff Wong
E-mail Distributor Bill Weaver
Snail Mail Distributor Gary Dughi
Business Manager Larry Logoteta
Auction Manager Glen Rankin
Auctioneer Peter D'Amato
Raffle Manager (temp) Larry Logoteta
Website Manager Albert Huntington
Website: http://www.bacps.org/
Mailing address: BACPS, 825 Bennington Street, Manteca, CA 95336
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