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Aldrovanda vesiculosa project Everything you need to know about Aldrovanda! |
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a) Plant structure, geographical strains
a) special papers on Aldrovanda b) general publications with comments on Aldrovanda
Important papers available on-line (18
papers)
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Last update 01/01/2004
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The waterwheel plant, Aldrovanda vesiculosa L., is a
remarkable aquatic carnivorous plant from the family Droseraceae. It is the only aquatic carnivorous plant with visible trap movement. Although it is distributed throughout a vast territory on all continents of the Old World, from
northern Russia to southern Australia, it grows in limited areas and is rarely observed in the wild as it has very specific requirements with regards to the quality of its environment. For this reason, it is regarded as a critically endangered species of national flora in
countries where it is naturally found.
In the 1990's, a global restoration of interest in Aldrovanda took place, both from the side of layman growers and also research scientists. Cultivation of the red Australian plants has become a great hit. Aldrovanda is commonly available for sale and trade. We have realized that the increasing interest in Aldrovanda in the last decade comes along with only scattered data on its cultivation, distribution, and biology. Moreover, a great deal of data are commonly unavailable for laymen. The purpose of this website is to summarize all references on Aldrovanda in all languages published up to now, as well as to provide important and interesting photos of this plant, its cultivation, natural and artificial sites, and also information on its use as an experimental organism. Many important papers are available here on-line. However, many of the published references on Aldrovanda, especially scientific literature from the fields of biochemistry and physiology or very old literature, are not provided here. As well, we are not able to present all of the interesting and valuable photos of Aldrovanda which exist. However, we shall supplement this website with new and topical pieces of knowledge, literature, and photos as they become available.
We are very grateful to all the authors, who have written about different aspects of Aldrovanda, and have provided permission to reproduce their papers and photos on-line. Special thanks are due to Mr. Christian BRECKPOT, Mr. Denis DALY (┼), Prof. Douglas DARNOWSKI, Dr. Jean-Daniel DEGREEF, Mr. Robert GIBSON, Dr. Herve HUET, Dr. Štěpán HUSÁK, Dr. Surrey JACOBS, Dr. Ryszard KAMIŃSKI, Prof. Katsuhiko KONDO, Dr. Ferenc KASZA, Mr. Viktor RAKOV, Mr. Filippo TASSARA, and to Mr. Miklós TOLDI. We are very grateful to Mr. Chris TEICHREB for correction of English text. |
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