[B52 growing nicely]

I got a small tissue culture B52 earlier this year, I thought it wouln't do much for me this year, But the B52 vigour is clearly vissible.

My small plant just arrived at June 6th, it is in a 9x9x9,5 pot and plant measuring 5,5 cm diameter.

And here it is today in a 13 x13 x13 pot.

Making some nice traps,

With a companion plant, also quite happy it seems,

This one is making 4cm+ traps as if it normal for a normal red dionaea.

Thanks for watching!

[S. purpurea "tina"]

At the website they are already selling it as a 'Sorrow', but I don't have any evindence to prove it yet.

I'm sure this will be an email misunderstanding.

I wrote a letter to Freddy de Coninck and I'm now awaiting his reply.

I hope he can give me some information about it, other people of the Belgian cp society told me he was getting active again in the CP world, so I hope for the best.

Regards,

Laurens

[S. purpurea "tina"]

Today I received my Sarracenia purpurea "Tina"

It looks very good in my opinion.

There is a lot of diversity even in the pitchers on the same plant. Look at the throat patch and the lid edge.

Unfortunately already in hybernation.

I'm now awaiting my reply on an e-mail I've send to two members of the Drosera VZW Belgian society.

I also emailed Cz-plants becouse they maybe know Miloslav Studnicka(original grower of 'Sorrow') and can help me to get in touch with him.

If somebody else can help me with finding contact with him, please let me know.

Thanks!

Regards,

Laurens

[S. purpurea "tina"]

Hi Nicolas,

Very, very, interesting, as the throat patch looks differend again, this shows again that this can be differend,

Thanks for the picture,

I also got a reply from triffidpark, they say they obtained the plant from the Belgium cp society back in 1994,

Way before sorrow was registerd, and the cutivar description says that they obtained seeds from florida back in 1979, sow this indeed could very well be'Sorrow' but before the name changed to sorrow it was grown under the name of tina.

I'm now searching contact with Freddy de Coninck(Belgium CP society back in 1994) he also gave the plant to triffidpark.

I will keep you updated guys, thanks for the information a lot!

[Some views into my collection (mainly Dionaea)]

Hi Matze,

Gorgeous collection!

Thanks for sharing

[S. purpurea "tina"]

Hi Guys,

I have a small update, I got a reply from the seller and he told me the following:

" To what we heard about it, it could well be Sarracenia purpurea 'Sorrow', but we lack information about it. Therefore, we can't decide which name is more legitimate for now."

The plant he is selling comes from Triffid Park(Australia).

I also emailed them, but no reply yet...

They have on their website that the plant came "from Gent" http://triffidpark.com.au/htm_pages/collec...rous_plants.htm (Scroll a bit more then 1/2 down the page)

I hope they will respond, so I can figure this out.

I somebody knows more about it, all info would be apperciated.

Thanks!

Regards,

Laurens

[S. purpurea "tina"]

I've done some more reasearch on it, I've emailed the shop and I ordered a plant.

As soon as I receive the plant I will post some pictures,

I indeed agree it looks very much like a S.x catesbaei with a throat patch, but so does the real S. purpurea ssp. purpurea 'Sorrow"

But compaire for yourself:

Sarracenia purpurea ssp. purpurea 'Sorrow': http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Speci..._89.html#sorrow

Sarracenia purpurea "Tina": http://www.karnivores.com/en/carnivorous-p...a-purpurea-tina

It looks exactly the same, exept for the throat patch, but the patch can become smaller when the plant is stressed.

I'm very interested in the outcome of this one...

Kind Regards,

Laurens

[S. purpurea "tina"]

Hi All,

I was searching some online cp webshops, and after some searching I saw a plant for sale named S. purpurea 'tina'

It is for sale at karnivores.com, a french site , It is a very interesting plant in my meaning.

It looks like a x catesbaei with the colors of a flava var. rugelii.

They also say it is a new cultivar, but I've not seen some sort of publishing on this one.

I think it is a cross between a veinless purpurea ssp. venosa and a flava var. rugelii

I havn't heard of it before, It looks a lot like the very rare S. purpurea 'Sorrow' to me.

If someone knows something more, Thanks!

I would like to get some more information about this one.

All the Best,

Laurens

[Some seed grown sarracenia]

Very nice plants indeed!

I really like your mutated flava var. ornata.

[S. 'Belly of Blood'...]

I really looks Fantastic!

Can't wait for it to be in Europe, I would love a spare of that one.

It looks to me as if there is some var. montana in it as you can see in the color, but the shape is of any normal ssp. venosa.

Maybe a cross between those two.

Thanks for sharing these pictures.

Kind Regards,

Laurens

[If you could only grow one carnivorous plant]

I would go for a nice cross of S. x exellens, anthocyanin free It is extremely rare, but I would swap any of my plants in my collection for even a small cutting.

I just love the combination with the white and the lime green, also in my anthocyanin free minor, leucophylla and psittacina.

[Shropshire Sarracenias new gallery]

Very nice site Mike,

**clicking refresh button every 10 seconds **

for new pictures

See you in October!

Regards,

Laurens

[Some pictures from my collection]

Fabulous collection and pictures. Can you describe what soil you use for cephalotus ?

Just about anything,

Fist I was very worried they wouldn't thrive on any normal mix, but now I'm using all kind of soils:

Nepenthes mix, fine orchid bark:dead spaghnum moss: perlite: spaghnum peat moss = 20:20:40:20

Sarracenia mix, perilite: spaghnum peat moss = 50:50

mexican pinguicula mix, sharp washed sand: spaghnum peat moss = 30: 70

I find that the sarracenia mix is doing best, but I'm only growing one plant on that one.

Good Luck!

[Some pictures from my collection]

seedling:

'Bohemian Garnet' Red sawtooth:

B52:

other plants:

darlingtonia seedling, lots of years to go:

U.pubescens:

Cephalotus:

P. vallisneriifolia asleep:

D.burmanii:

D.binata bush:

D.x hybrida going in hybernation already:

D. venusta:

Not to bad for one year collecting cp's is it ?

Thanks for watching.

[Some pictures from my collection]

Drosophyllum:

Seedling:

Dionaea:

collection:

Cupped trap:

Green Sawtooth:

Sawtooth:

Purple Giant lives up to it's name:

Unknown parents, does anybody have an idea?:

[Some pictures from my collection]

Minor. var. okefenokeensis :

S.purpurea ssp. purpurea f.heterophylla:

Seedlings ssp. purpurea f. heterophylla x venosa green ,anthocyanin free:

S.x formosa, psittacina x minor okee giant

S.X exellens fresh automn pitcher:

S.x readii, anthocyanin free:

Other S.x exellens, nice hood color patern :

S.x courtii 'paradisia'

[Some pictures from my collection]

Venosa green:

Leucophylla:

Pink tube, pubescent:

Leucophylla clone 1# :

And clone 2# from same seedbatch :

Leucophylla Ghost, NOT 'Schnell's Ghost':

'Tarnok':

Yellow flower, Citronelle AL.:

leucophylla anthocyanin free:

Minor, green, anthocyanin free:

[Some pictures from my collection]

Here are some new pictures from my collection.

**Sarracenia:

New species, Sarracenia heliamphorii, actualy just a rugelii mutation, but now it is vissible that heliamphora is an simplified version of sarracenia:

got as flava var. maxima from carnivora seedbank, seedings:

S.x catesbaei, Anthocyanin free:

S.rubra ssp. gulfensis anthocyanin free:

crazy oreophilla, with automn pitchers:

Venosa:

collection:

big clump:

Fat pitcher:

Montana from Oakey Mountain:

Montana from Tom's Swamp, Georgia:

[New digital camera.]

Stunning plants, I like the SX43 a lot!

Happy Growing!

Regards,

Laurens

[Sarracenia "Chipola Giant"]

Very Big indeed, Stunning plant.

Thanks for the pictures!

[An excellent update]

Andy, I love your exellens collection

Gorgeous!

[purp-purp]

I see this quite often, especialy in the flowers that pop up later in the season.

Good luck!

[South West Carnivorous Plants Open Days]

I'm still working on the anthro-free plant - but it could be a while...!!!

Good luck, me to. I now have both the parents but my minor green is only 15 cm.

My leucophylla however is flowering size.

[U. ID needed]

Hi,

Today I was looking at my huge bush of D. binata var. dichotoma and noticed this little yellow flower right in the middle of the sticky parts of the leaves.

The flower stalks are about 15 cm high and give up to 20 flowers per stalk. The actual leaves are very small just like bisquamata, sandersonii etc.

If somebody knows what kind of Utricularia this is, please let me know.

Thanks and Kind Regards,

Laurens

[EEE 2009 Ghent, Belgium]

Only 22 days left

I'll be there to.