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Tarnok

Posted on March 11, 2011 | 12 comments

Howdy!  I was up early today and caught my  Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Tarnok’ flower opening…

Just wanted to share this photo of the mutant weird-yet-awesome flower.  It’s what makes this leucophylla so special as it’s has a quite a different flower structure. Notice the small white tips in the middle — those are the stigmas and I actually am attempting to pollinate it. This morning I threw on some S. flava var. cuprea pollen on those little tips and will hope for the best.  S. leucophylla ‘Tarnok’ is not known to be a very good pod parent, but we’ll try and see what happens.  Even if it doesn’t work, it’s flower structure is one to be enjoyed.

Sarracenia leucophylla 'Tarnok'

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Leucophylla Baby

Posted on October 26, 2010 | 2 comments

I was sick yesterday and today and this afternoon I finally managed to gather enough strength to go out and replenish my soul by spending time with the plants. One of the seedlings that caught my eye today was this S. leucophylla seedling. This was a seed grown plant that I recevied as seed on October 23, 2008.  Nearly two years later, this is what it looks like.  The cross was done by my friend Wes Buckner and is the result of crossing two very nice leucophylla parents from the same location (Franklin County, Florida, the parent plants were denoted by “A” and “B”.) Thanks Wes!

 

S. leucophylla, Franklin A x leucophylla, Franklin B[Sarracenia leucophylla, Franklin County “A”, x leucophylla, Franklin County “B”]

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Autumn Equinox – 9.23.2010

Posted on September 23, 2010 | Leave a comment

Hello Autumn. Nice to see you again.

Man — after a long day at the office, it was so nice to be greeted by a wonderful full autumn equinox moon tonight. Came home and my wife baked a fresh pumpkin pie. Oh man. I am feeling very autumn-y!

The equinox marks a shift in season — where both night and day fall roughly into equal lengths.  The “harvest moon” refers to the when the autumn moon is at its brightest, when the farmers would work by its light to bring in the harvest…  I wasn’t doing any harvesting tonight, but rather doing a lot of watering.  Tonight the harvest moon and autumnal equinox fall on the same date – and this won’t happen, I’m told until another 19 years in 2029.

I just took this photo a few minutes ago; it is a photo of the autumn harvest equinox moon from my deck.

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When I think of autumn (Sarracenia wise), I think of leucophylla/leucophylla hybrids, seed pods, and the seed pod harvest …and speaking of harvest, I did a little bit of harvesting  a couple of days ago.  Here’s a quick mosaic taken with photos from the handy dandy iPhone reflecting some of this…

eqnox[Clockwise from top left: group shot | S. leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’, division  from a seed grown plant before the HCW site was destroyed | Handful of Sarracenia pods  | A pocket full of fresh harvested pods in envelopes to extract seed later. Yes – Cargo pants come in handy in situations like this.]

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Another Reptile Crossing!

Posted on September 18, 2010 | 3 comments

Happy weekend everyone!  Hope your weekends are going well!

Here’s a seedling that was created by Dr. Travis Wyman. It’s yet another Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ hybrid. This one is  another clone of S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”.  There’s a few other photos of its siblings from an earlier post – (Reptile Crossing).

What strikes me about this particular seedling is that the lips are still staying green, even in strong light.  When the light hits the nectar roll at just the right angle, it also can also seem to have a slight blueish-green hue to it.   I hope that the angular features of the parent plant get more amplified as it matures on this particular plant.  A green angular peristome (nectar roll) would mos’ def be pretty awesome!

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x leucophylla "pale"[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale” – cross created by Dr. Travis Wyman]

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