Sarracenia leucophylla “Purple Lips” – OP
Here’s another one of those little surprises that I chanced upon while cleaning and organizing the seedlings. This is an open pollinated youngin’ of unknown pollen parent lineage. A promising spawn of Sarracenia leucophylla “Purple Lips” throws up a new pitcher above the fray of the old and decrepit foliage.
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Tagged American, carnivorous, hybrid, leucophylla, North, Open Pollinated, Pitcher, Plant, purple lips, Sarracenia, seedling, Unknown
NOW OPEN! AWWW YEAHHH! I received a rooted cutting of this brilliant Nepenthes thorelii x aristolochioides earlier in September from Nepenthes master, Paul Barden. Check out his posts here and here on this truly remarkable plant. I’m glad that it’s doing well and happy to report that one month later, I finally got one pitcher open with a few more on the way! So excited! 🙂
Tagged aristolochioides, Barden, carnivorous, nepenthes, Paul, Pitcher Plant, Plant, thorelii
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’
An old spring pitcher now fading into nothing more than a shadow of it’s former glory.
Off to sleep, now go…
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Tagged carnivorous, dormancy, Leah Wilkerson, North American, Pitcher Plant, Plant, Sarracenia, Shadow of former glory
If you’ve been following my blog, following me on twitter, or even had a 2 minute conversation with me about Sarracenia, you already know that my obsession is anthocyanin free plants. (Those are plants that lack anthocyanin, or the pigments that give the plants the colors that range from red to blue.) I know, I know… I am strange.
I must confess that I think I’m starting to have a little crush on veinless plants too. They’re hawt. (GASP!) Now, those are not anthocyanin free as there’s still some red/pink tones in the leaves. “Erm…OH GAWD ROB, THAT’S SO BLAND AND BORING!“, you may say. Well, yeah. Duh. It’s different. And I like it! I find that vienless plants have this delicate and elegant element about them. Perhaps it’s the hues of the pink and yellows that leads me to think this. It gives the plant this quiet glow. Such a nice contrast to all the face-melting loud coloration and patterns of many a fine specimen out there. (Hey, there’s nothing wrong with those either, love those too!)
Here’s a few photos of S. alata “veinless.” I know that there’s some faint veins in the photos below, but as it ages, I think that those fade out anyway. I received the plant this year. Along with the rest of the plants, it has had a rough spring/summer and now recovering quite nicely. It’s making a good comeback and looking forward to more veinless goodness next season.
Sarracenia alata “veinless”
Sarracenia alata “veinless”
Sarracenia alata “veinless”
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Tagged alata, carnivorous, North American Pitcher Plant, Pitcher Plant, Plant, rad, Sarracenia, veinless
Sarracenia ‘Leah Wilkerson’ x ‘Adrian Slack’
Cross by Brooks Garcia
Just a quick update on this fighter of a plant. After suffering in the low light conditions earlier this year, it’s bounced back and is actually looking rather decent. Here are two recent pitchers that came up and a third is on the way to open up shortly. (Special thanks to the S. leucophylla influence on the fall pitchers.) In seasons past, prolonged exposure to bright direct light would cause the green veins and slight pink flush that’s currently are visible fade to white; this produced a very beautiful and haunting contrast with the deep red throat splotch. There’s still a little bit of season left, so I am hoping that this plant will show off more white in the upper portion of the hood before finally going to sleep for winter dormancy.
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Tagged Adrian Slack, Awesome Contrast, Brooks Garcia, carnivorous, hybrid, Leah Wilkerson, North American Pitcher Plant, Plant, Sarracenia
Brocchinia reducta
Brocchinia reducta is a bromeliad that seems to be a little more bewitching and devious than other bromeliads. As a bromeliads, the leaves fit together to form a foliar urn that holds water in the center of the plant. What’s cool about Brocchinia reducta is that it’s quite possibly — carnivorous. Brocchinia’s leaves are coated with a very slippery waxy surface. This waxy surface is highly reflective of UV light insects are fatally attracted to this magical glow. Once the meal finds it’s way to the surface, it looses it’s foothold on the crumbly waxy surface, slips into the pool, drowns, and eventually gets absorbed. It’s also reported that this death pool is “perfumed”. There’s some debate as to the nature of this plants carnivory. For more information, check out this link at the International Carnivorous Plant Society. I received this plant from fellow grower and friend Don Elkins on 27 July 2011 and it’s been doing quite well since then. (Thanks Donnie!)
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Tagged Brocchinia reducta, bromeliad, carnivorous, SuperWaxyReflectiveAwesomeness
The following is a seed grown clone of Sarracenia psittacina “golfballensis” (sorry that link is only to a list of photos to Sarracenia psittacina’s, at least you get an idea; and for some reason I can’t find any photos of the variation “golfballensis”) and Sarracenia ‘Judith Hindle’.
This cross was created by Brooks Garcia, and the seedling below is about 2 years old. S. psittacina “golfballensis” gets to have large sized hoods/heads, the size of a golf ball (hence the name). Below is pictured only one of several seedlings that I am currently growing, all are a bit different, but this so far has been the strongest seedling of the batch. It’s only 2 years old but is putting on some decent size for it’s age, and showing good color. I am looking forward to what it can do as it matures.
[Sarracenia psittacina “golfballensis” x ‘Judith Hindle’ 2 year old seedling – cross by Brooks Garcia]
