Re: [CH] More thoughts on C. pubescens fruit setting
Michael Bailes (frgntgar@ozemail.com.au)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 16:55:05 +1000
At 2:07 PM +1000 25/8/98, Lynn Edwards wrote:
>Cameron Begg wrote about Rocotos taking months to set fruit:
>
>> So what is different in the middle of August? I have been watching the
>> plant very carefully for clues and have come up with a rather obvious
>> answer. I noticed a brown hornet (one of the type that constructs hanging
>> clay nests for it's young) very systematically foraging in the flowers;
>> presumably for traces of nectar. Further studies revealed an irridescent
>> green fly about 0.3" long doing the same thing. Any entomologists on the
>> list?
>
Mine have set fruit and hase big green apples on it now (an almost 2 year
old plant.)
Spring starts for us in a week or two. We have had a very cold (7C) very
very wet winter.
Michael Bailes.
Herbarist
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