In the sea of brown dried pitchers, a few plants still hold well. Most of them are the leucophylla / leucophylla hybrids that have that late season flush of pitchers. Here’s a recent photo of Sarracenia ‘Wilkersons Red’ – Open Pollinated, or “OP” for short. It is a plant that came from the S. ‘Wilkersons Red’ plant (a stunning red Moorei) but we don’t know what the pollen parent is. Anyway, It’s still a nice plant. 🙂
[Sarracenia ‘Wilkersons Red’ – Open Pollinated]
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What?! November already?! Where has this year gone? Halloween is now over, Thanksgiving around the corner… wow. Plants are preparing for sleep, or already are asleep. There are still a few of those late season plants that look great, but now as I look out across the collection, the dried pitchers are making themselves more evident signifying the change of season deep upon us. This also means a lot of pitcher clean up for me in the *very* near coming future. 🙂
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Quick post for this lazy rainy Sunday afternoon. In everyone’s life, a little rain must fall. Plants are enjoyin’ it though… and so am I. It means I don’t have to water anything out there today. 🙂
[Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ and future meal, livin’ on the edge…]
I don’t really got to say much here, but man… that fly really is livin’ on the edge (not for long though…)
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One of the hybrids I did a couple of years ago caught my eye as I was doing some clean up in the yard today. Check out what a couple of years did…
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[Winter, 2008 – Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) – Anthocyanin Free Clone]
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[Fall, 2010 – Sarracenia (purpurea ssp. purpurea x rubra ssp. jonesii) x (leucophylla x rubra ssp. gulfensis) – Anthocyanin Free Clone]
Sarracenia purpurea ssp. venosa var. burkii f. luteola. Yeah. Type that 10 times fast without getting carpal tunnel syndrome! (S. purpurea ssp venosa var. burkii = S. rosea. Ah yes, the name game. A comprehensive run down of this is can be found in the FAQ’s of Barry Rice’s site.)
It’s an awesome plant and for more information, read about the history of this plant on the International Carnivorous Plant Society page about this friggin’ awesome plant. (Thanks Mr. Miller and Mr. Hanrahan!)
About a year or so ago, I received a few seeds from fellow grower friend, Chris Gussman. The seedlings are now showing some luteola-ness! Chris (Chris, correct me if I am wrong), crossed 2 of his S. rosea f. luteola plants and now the seeds are coming up over here pretty nice. I have hopes to propagate and distribute these plants (among others) in the future to ensure this plants survival. Thanks again Chris!
[Sarracenia purpurea ssp. venosa var. burkii f. luteola, 9.18.10]
Dude, I’m stuffed… I just had this incredible dinner just now – a regular “mixtwo” burrito from Taqueria Guadalajara. (yeah, that’s a yelp link…) I don’t like the sour cream and other “fluff” to get in the way of the flavors of the meat. The two choices of protein in this particular burrito was carne asada (steak) and carnitas (pork). The flavors play well off each other and enhance each other. And these burritos were like as big as my forearm, and i figured I would only eat half and work out tonight — BUT — the flavor was so awesome that I just ate the whole thing. YES. Anyway… now that I got that out of the way, I feel friggin’ stuffed. Like dude… food comatose is setting in but I gotta get this blog post outta the way before I fall asleep on my keyboard. 😉
Just hope I don’t end up like the following photo of a pitcher plant filled with bugs. This pitcher is completely stuffed. Look closely, you can see the exoskeltons of the meals in there. Pitcher plants are great at trapping prey; when they get too full, the older pitchers will kinda burn out and dark burn marks will appear, or sometimes the pitcher will just break down like below. Sometimes, the traps are so good at catching prey they get so loaded and wasted with bugs that the pitcher topple over. Yummy. Ok, pass the Pepto Bismol please…
