N.truncata"pasian"

生得都可以喇

談一下水苔網站

前言:

早前找到這個website

Basic Information About Peat Moss
因為很多時候,種植食蟲植物都會用上水苔的

所以我便在forum上推介這個網站 <<一個關於水苔的網站>>

(雖然相信沒有多少人看過...... 但是沒關係)

她網站中提到

Nutrition: is Peat Moss Greedy?

Cell walls of peat moss bind large amounts of nutrients, much more than the plant needs for its own survival, leaving the nutrient level of the surrounding water barely above that of distilled water. (這句是重點) Translation: 大約是說水苔有很強的吸收肥料的能力, 使周圍環境的肥料比蒸餾水高一點點.(很長......不想翻譯) The cell walls function as ion exchangers. They rapidly  absorb cations,such as calcium and magnesium  supplied by rainwater, and, in exchange,  release hydrogen ions into the water. Because  hydrogen ions render the water acidic, bog water  is almost as sour as undiluted vinegar (pH=3-4). Thus, peat mosses create and maintain a nutrient-poor, acidic environment that fosters their own growth but is intolerable to all but a small variety of highly-specialized other plants.

網友sammy提出了這麼一個問題

'如果真係咁, 水苔應該含有很多礦物鹽,

 點解可以用來種食蟲植物?'

Translation:

要是如此,(這句不用翻譯),

為什麼可以用來種食蟲植物?

就這個問題, 本人便send了一封E-mail

這一封E-mail對我意義重大

因為這是第一封給外國人的E-mail !!!

意義更重大的是,她回了信!!!
(事關這網站是2004年建立的)

更更重大的是,她是維也納大學的生物學家!!!!

啊!!!專業人士啊!!!

我那一封大約是問她網友sammy的那個問題,

為免自曝其短,

我的那一封E-mail就不要post了

Post她那一封好了

In fact, Sphagnum binds more nutrietents than it needs. 

What is left is suitable only for small and specialized plants, 

like for instance carnivorous plants, which cover their needs 

by feeding on insects. 

Sphagnum keeps its ion-binding ability also when 

it is dead.(這句是重點) 

Translation:

死了的水苔仍然有吸收肥料的能力

Have you ever seen a living bog? In the center are only 

sphagnum and its accompaniyng specialists.

啊!!!神啊!!!難怪水苔會這麼適合用來種食蟲植物!!!

其實除了這個吸不吸肥料的問題外,有很多有用的information的

上去看看吧!

Basic Information About Peat Moss

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其實為什麼加入,我都不很清楚.
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