I can’t help but post and share more Sarracenia flower goodness to kick this weekend off – enjoy!
Sarracenia courtii x ‘Adrian Slack’ – Select Clone
Sarracenia leucophylla – Anthocyanin Free
Sarracenia rubra wherryi “Chatom Giant”
Sarracenia ‘Abandoned Hope’
Sarracenia ‘Snorkle’
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ “Prince of Darkness”
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ “Prince of Darkness”
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ “Prince of Darkness”
Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Tarnok’
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Tagged Abandoned Hope, Adrian Slack, Alucard, anthocyanin free, Chatom Giant, Courtii, flower, Flower Power!, leucophylla, Prince of Darkness, rad, rubra, Sarracenia, Snorkle, Tarnok
[Sarracenia rubra wherryi “Chatom Giant” x “Sky Watcher”, flower variations]
Happy May everyone. May is here, where has this year gone? We’re almost half way through ’11. Nuts. Anyway, Happy May erray-body! I wanted to share and illustrate a little variation again on genetics and breeding Sarracenia. It always makes things so freekin’ interesting. You never know what parent plant or grand parent plant, (or beyond) would influence the current progeny. Fun stuff this is. Lately, I’ve been pointing out a lot of the variation on the pitchers – such as shape, color, size… so on and so forth. However, I noticed that this one particular cross had different colored flowers. The flowers photographed above, are those of a cross that was created by fellow Sarracenia addict, Brooks Garcia. It is S. rubra ssp. wherryi “Chatom Giant” x “Sky watcher”. He sent me some seeds of his cross 3 years ago that I grew out. Above are two different flowers of this same cross.
Genetics, always fun!
(By the way,there’s a third adolescent seedling that has a flower bud that hasn’t opened up yet, but I’ll share that when it does. I can’t really tell the color of that third unopened just yet.)
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Tagged Chatom Giant, flower, hybrid, rubra, Sarracenia, Sky Watcher, Variation, Wherryi
As I was sorting out some seedlings a couple weeks back, I discovered one of the pitcher plants kinda … hangin’ out. Well, that thing on it was hangin’ out.
This is a 2 1/2 year old seed grown clone of S. rubra ssp. wherryi “Chatom Giant” x “Sky watcher” (cross created by Brooks Garcia) – what impresses me with this plant is that — that thing. You know, that long thing on the hood. Reminds me of an angler or something. 🙂 Now, not all the crosses from this grex look the same, (grex is just a geeky way of saying the plants that came from the same hybrid group): some have elongated lids, some are showing more color, some are exhibiting more flared hoods from the S. “Sky watcher” parentage — but they all look interesting. I hope that it gets some of that size from it’s rubra ssp. wherryi “Chatom Giant” as it matures. Yeah. 😉
[Sarracenia rubra ssp. wherryi “Chatom Giant” x “Sky Watcher”]
