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Welcome,
At the times of social networks, starting a blog might be considered old-fashioned in a way but this is pretty convenient to share in a same place all my obsessions and creations.
"Strange fruits" is mainly focused on carnivorous plants as it is my main center of interest at the moment. You will thus find infos on the plants I grow, my cultivation techniques, my travels, updates on my research and publications as a taxonomist, reports on CP meetings, CP books reviews and much more. You will also find a lot of stuff linked to literature, music, entomology and drawing. I do hope you will find here a couple of interesting things.
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François Sockhom Mey

Friday, November 5, 2010

Drosera peltata on Mount bokor

Mount Bokor is a 70 km long flat mountain located in southern Cambodia. It is now quite well known by carnivorous plants enthusiasts for it is home to an endemic species of Nepenthes uncovered to science in 2007 and formally described in 2009: Nepenthes bokorensis.
In 2007, I found out that Phnom Bokor also hosts several species of carnivorous plants including a magnificent population of crimson Drosera peltata.

I found many amazing plants during my 2007 trip in Cambodia but I think that little Drosera colony will stay as one of my dearest botanical memory. Some were literally growing on the rocks!
Unfortuanately, I returned on the Bokor in 2009 and I found out that this very sundew colony has been completely wiped out. The Cambodian government has leased the whole mountain (located in a national park!) for private investment. A lot of works are thus being undertaken.

I hope other colonies of this lovely Drosera peltata are growing somewhere else in the national park - which is likely- but this remains to be proved.






Drosera peltata growing in sympatry with Nepenthes bokorensis:

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