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S. purpurea identification


Carlos Rohrbacher

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I can't see from your pic's if the outside of the pitchers are smooth or hairy/felt like.

ssp purp. is smooth.

It looks to be mostly ssp venosa, but there is something about it that (to me) say's it's a hybrid between the two -

ssp. purp x ssp. venosa (or vise versa).

Lets see what others think.

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That's a tough one.

ssp. purpurea style pitcher on this one, at the back:

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Looks like an intergrade to me. That doesn't necessarily mean it's purpurea x venosa - it could well be from a population of wild plants that have the characteristics of both subspecies.

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I'm not going on the picture with the thinner pitchers,these look to me like the plant has been repotted and is considerably younger than in other pictures.

The picture of the pitcher in hand is mature i.e much shorter and fatter with a ruffled hood.Some pitchers/plants it is hard to see the hairiness and individual plants vary considerably. The flower stalk could be down to Carlos's growing conditions,which i presume are warm.This would provide a more contineous growth period than our warm days and cold nights while our plants are growing their flowers.

That said it could have some other distant origin in its make up,this just my view.

ada

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I'm lost, this site have a lot of imagens and I didn't saw differences :D

Regards.

some of the plants on this site labelled as ssp. purpurea do look like your plant, especially the New Jersey photos; this is an area where the two ssp. purpurea and ssp. venosa overlap (intergrade) and it is difficult to tell the difference. I have some New Jersey purpureas and I keep changing my mind as to the ssp, not sure it is possible.

As said above, your plants looks MOST like ssp. venosa but could be a mix

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Hi people,

These pictures are of the one plant, throughout three years.

I lives in south of Brazil.

In the winter temperature varies of 16 degrees -» - 4 degrees (Celcius), humidity 75%

In the spring temperature varies of 23 degrees -» 8 degrees (Celcius), humidity 80%

In the summer temperature varies of 29 degrees -» 12 degrees (Celcius), humidity 80% (or more)

Do you need more picures, any part of the plant in particular?

Thanks.

Carlos.

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