I have a pot of this plant and one plant is growing nicely the other is laying on it's side. Why is that? I expect I will dig up the droopy plant and see what's going on. It was the original plant. The straight up one is an off shoot. Too, I have another that is curled over funny like. What would cause that. Should I just dig and repot that one as well? It too has another in the pot that is growing straight up. I'd like to avoid these problems in the future. Thanks for the advice not to give them little sips like I have been doing. I will pass them by for a couple of months or more.

The "8 long months of tireless searching and researching" was tongue-in-cheek. I actually gave up on it but still kept it in the back of my mind. Last weekend there was an annual festival at our botanic gardens that I attended. After going in one of the first plants I saw was this Sans. What would we do without a bit of serendipity? I have a lot of links to many sites and I also have many contacts that I can ask. Often these will provide some clues which can be tracked down. Sometimes you only come up with a blank. Whatever I find I check out on the Kew Gardens register to see whether it's still current. I do have a bit of an obsession with fossicking out the finer details, often more than what most others even want to know about. But I always feel it's better to know a bit more than what you need rather than less than what you need.

Hi your setup looks expensive lol After giving a lot of consideration to a new setup ,I opted for the shadehouse.I believe i can end up with a 25x25 semi-greenhouse for under 3 grand. I've noticed most "terrariums" are very expensive not to mention the operating costs. I figured I'd have at least that much if not more in an indoor setup..I've found lighting a difficult issue both from a cost and practicle stanpoint. Another is adequet ventilation. One of the most difficult choices has been what to use as a wall covering.Nothing works in this climate lol Another thing I've found is that no matter how large I make the "terrarium" it's not big enogh lol I keep my birds in a separate aviary as most can't be kept with plants. An exception was the sugarbirds they flourished as did the plants and were fantastic to look at. hate to see birds in cages!! Have never kept reptiles except indirectly but would certainly do a lot of research before getting anything. Thought a Chameleon would be a natural choisce for several reasons. It will be a long time before I add any animals to this setup so it doesn't matter much at this point.Thanks for the help lol gary

As for the consensus on the genus being Papilio, that is actually a fluid topic. Heraclides is also being used. This paper explains that P. cresphontes does not get into South America. Also mentions how people don't know how to distinguish them from P. thaos so they misreport P. cresphontes sightings in places where P. cresphontes don't exist. This type of problem is quite common when you have people reporting sightings who are not up to speed with lesser known species that closely resemble widely known species. P. cresphontes starts on page 118. In the "Acknowledgements" part of the paper, the author thanks Dr. Andy Warren. If you are on Twitter, I highly recommend following Dr. Warren. He gets around and posts some wonderful Lepidoptera related things. 1 PHYLOGENY AND REVISION OF THE GENUS HERACLIDES HÜBNER, 1819