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Hi! Recently I was counting animals in the pitcher of N. lowii x alata and beside cca 25 death arthropods and 2 mollusks found at least 6 small (1 mm) and one large (3,5 mm) larvae of Asian tiger mosquito alive. As far as I know, only several species live in Sarracenia as commensal fauna in their native habitat but not in Europe, some research about Nepenthes were done in India and Malaysia, where some 25 nepenthebiont species were found, but in Europe? Forget the evolution, mosquitos are present here only several years, they had no time to adapt to poison soup in pitchers, but they definitely live inside, saved from fish and other predators. Is there any known observation of fauna in Nepenthes out of their native habitat?

Very nice. They all look healthy. Would be easier to admire them if the picture was properly oriented 🙂

DAfter the intense heat...now I just have to watch them grow

What now this is what I call highlander! Lovely plants you got there! Congratulations on managing to achieve such low temperatures to fit their needs. They seem to thrive at your place.

Hi all, after a long time i'm here again. I want to show you the flower of my P. calyptrata. They comes from the ecuadorian andes. Or better, from the 'Cajas National Park' in Ecuador. The altitude from this park is beginning at 3.152m (!) and ends at 4.445m. Very low temperatures are required for successful growing! At day i have 17 degrees Celsius and at night they drops down to 3-5 dregrees. If it is too warm, they will die very quickly! I achieve these low temperatures in a converted mini fridge with a glass door. Some of you still know it from my U. campbelliana. These are still growing in this fridge with the calyptratas.... best regards Tobias

Very nice hybrid from A. Wistuba - Heliamphora sarracenioides x minor "Burgundy-Black". It's rather short and compact growing, but turns deep red and forms dense clumps over time with unique shaped pitchers.

Dwarf form of 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘪 (Angasima Tepui). The leaves are about 8cm tall.

One of my favourite and the best clone of Heliamphora nutans in cultivation 🔥

Hey, thanks a lot!

Hello, There are 2 recent topics from the sellers offering those seeds:

Hello See the attached picture. Where I could find/buy seeds for the species seen in picture? Not sure if it's drosera tokaiensis or something like that.. Thanks Matias

Colorful clone of a natural H. chimantensis x pulchella hybrid from Apacara Tepui.

Ignore above found some Obovata and lets just say the difference is obvious i think its fair to assume the big pot is indeed correctly labeled as Eloisiana. Leaving these photos here incase anyone in the future runs into the same issue

Another mix up from years prior I have pots labelled as d. Eloisiana but can't help but wonder if they could be obovata. Is there any sure way of telling other than the obvious leaf shape of obovata being more longated which really doesn't help since they share similar characteristics?

I found Utricularia macrorhiza, Utricularia bifida, and Drosera rotundifolia in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. They were located one station away from the city's main train station. Utricularia macrorhiza was growing very close to the road, in two large artificial ponds for holding water. It tended to grow very close to the shore and I didn't see any in the center of the ponds. I saw like 6-7 different species of dragonflies there as well as a lot of other insects. The second site was a wetland that was near a dam. There's supposed to be Drosera peltata (maybe a different species now), Utricularia uliginosa, Utricularia macrorhiza, Utricularia, bifida, and Drosera rotundifolia there, but I was too late for Drosera peltata and didn't see any Utricularia uliginosa so I wasn't able to confirm its presence there. I also didn't see any Utricularia macrorhiza there or in the water at the dam, but I also didn't look very hard for it since I had already seen it at the previous site. Anyways, I only saw carnivorous plants growing in the left half of the wetland for some reason. The area was quite small, probably around 5 square meters. The first plant I saw was bifida, and I actually noticed the stolons first even though there were plenty of flowering specimens. I'm rather embarrassed to admit that it took me around 20 minutes to find Drosera rotundifolia despite there being plenty of them. I think the main thing that threw me off was that there weren't any clumps of plants. They mostly grew as individual plants with the occasional 2 or 3 plants growing together, and weren't the bright red I am used to seeing when looking at wild rotundifolia. After a lot of effort searching, I was able to see a flower stalk and follow it to find a rosette half-hidden by grass. The plants here also weren't very vigorous, having a lot of spindly green leaves. There was some construction going on a little distance away to repair the path and fix part of the dam, but it was downstream so hopefully it doesn't affect the plants. I would definitely want to return to this site in the future to look for tuberous Drosera and check for Utricularia uliginosa.

Video: The ICPS World Conference & 40 Jahre GFP in Vienna 2024. In May, Irmgard and I visited the ICPS World Conference 2024, organized by the society for carnivorous plants in the German-speaking area, GFP, which also celebrated its 40th anniversary here, in the wonderful ambience of Schönbrunn Castle in Vienna (Austria). In addition to pictures from the orangery with a sensational range of carnivorous plants, we are showing short excerpts from several of the highly interesting lectures by well-known scientists. We have translated everything in English and German with subtitles. Our entertaining excursion to Vienna is therefore bilingual throughout. It is certainly worthwhile even for scientific laymen to take a look.

Hmm, I was thinking tridentata.

Tridentata was my first hunch as well. I am by far not an expert so I held back on answering. Just like Pico, I know your hitchiker looks like Tridentata, but cannot tell if there are any other species that looks like and can be confused with tridentata. In short, I do not know all utricularia species.

A very nice Heliamphora ionasi, and probably my favourite as well. It grows to extraordinary sizes and is the biggest clone of this species in my collection. Under moderate light the leaves are distinctly veined. The venation is still visible on this pictured specimen but blended a bit with orange coloration caused by stroner illumination. I got this plant over 20 years ago from AW.

Could be U.tridentata. Not my field though

Whatever it is, it's lovely! Nice find.

Hi, any Utric experts out there who can ID this hitchhiker Utric that came up in a pot of U. jamesoniana? Sorry about the quality of the photos - they were taken with my phone through glass. Cheers Steve

So-called Heliamphora "Mickey" - a very old clone in cultivation, natural hybrid from Ilu-Tramen Massif. Many years ago it's been circulating under the name H. nutans (Tramen) x ionasi.

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One of the best Heliamphora sarracenioides clones that tends to stay green and has bulky pitchers - "Green Squat".