Post by fredg on Sept 15, 2012 11:53:45 GMT -5
Utricularia praelonga, section Foliosa, a terrestrial bladderwort from South America. A bit of an oddity as it grows two very distinct types of leaves. One set small obovate and the other tall grass like, 20+cm (8+"). This is a quote that amused me, I believe it's from Barry Rice
I do not have a problem getting it into flower.The inflorescence is long at around 40-50 cm (16 - 20") and tends just to flop over. Flowers are yellow.
I'd grown it for a few years in a cold unheated greenhouse when all the winters were relatively mild until the winter of 2010-11 when the plant suffered temperatures down to -18 Celsius ( 0F). This year I bought a replacement. However, I kept the old pot in a corner in the greenhouse just because it was covered in Drosera spatulata which had self seeded. When I took the photo of the foliage of the replacement I happened to glance across at the old pot and mixed up in the Drosera inflorescences were the tall leaves of U. praelonga so the plant isn't as tender as first thought. There is still some mixed up with the D.spatulata and I have a couple of extra 3" pots of it to grow on.
Utricularia praelonga--This plant confounded me when I first grew it, because although it produced little obovate leaves, my pot of it was infested with a kind of grass that made long, erect leaves. I kept pulling these out until the day I realized that these were leaves of the same species! Yes, it makes two kinds of leaves! It is really hard to convince this plant to flower.
I do not have a problem getting it into flower.The inflorescence is long at around 40-50 cm (16 - 20") and tends just to flop over. Flowers are yellow.
I'd grown it for a few years in a cold unheated greenhouse when all the winters were relatively mild until the winter of 2010-11 when the plant suffered temperatures down to -18 Celsius ( 0F). This year I bought a replacement. However, I kept the old pot in a corner in the greenhouse just because it was covered in Drosera spatulata which had self seeded. When I took the photo of the foliage of the replacement I happened to glance across at the old pot and mixed up in the Drosera inflorescences were the tall leaves of U. praelonga so the plant isn't as tender as first thought. There is still some mixed up with the D.spatulata and I have a couple of extra 3" pots of it to grow on.
