Dieter Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Hi all, yesterday was again one of those days when many of my drosera flowered. Now many D. pulchella joined the show and I spent many hours on taking pictures and resizing them. If I remember correctly, there were at least 6 orange flowered forms from various sources with differents names, 3 pink forms and 2 white forms. Actually, I only have 3 more forms which were not in flower yesterday. Not all the pictures were good enough to show them here, but here is the "best of" collection: Pink flowered forms : Pink/white : (this picture shows the real colour quite well) Red purple Big Brook: at least in spring the inflorescences are very short, about 1-1.5 cm note the short inflorescence Purple/maroon (sorry for the incorrect label) Orange flowered forms: The colour of my forms is very similar. The major differences are size (but that is also variable within a population), the shape of petals and other flower organs and the intensity of the coloration of the centre. Salmon Flower: very similar with Scott River form, petals usually overlap widely, maroon center Scott River: petals show less overlap compared to “Salmon Flower”, otherwise very similar Orange 2: usually the flowers are not very symmetrical White flowered forms: Light pink: I was surprised to find this form to be clear white yesterday. Thanks, Martin this truly is a beautiful form! The flowers were larger and whiter compared to “white flower, red centre” White Flower red centre: This form still has a hint of pink on the petals which I did not manage to capture on the pictures I hope you like them! Cheers Dieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glider14 Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 nice! i can finally ID my D. pulchella now as the pink/white flower form. Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Fantastic flowershow!! Great work,thank you!! Iggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweep Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 What lovely flowers, they were a pleasure to look at. Thanks for sharing. Gill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Allan Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Wonderful plants. Some of my unusual coloured D pulchella are about to come into flower- I hope they are like yours. I'm surprised that these forms are not more widely distributed- D pulchella is an easy plant to grow and one of the mosty beautiful. Cheers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm82792 Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Nice, one thing I want to do is a pygmy bog in a large ceramic sorta of flat looking pot in a wall shelf with a flat flourscent grow light that you can't relly see if you can pitcure it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Excellent photo's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Posted May 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Thank you for your nice comments! I would like to add that I used the names the gemmae came with. In some cases not shown here I noticed an incorrect label as the resulting plants had an unexpected flower colour or - in case of a "clear white red centre" - came as a mix with an orange flowered form. Unfortunately, in that case I lost all the truly white flowered plants after I removed the orange ones :cry: And once again thanks to those who supplied the gemmae to me (you know who you are)! Cheers Dieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Spence Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 I would like to add that I used the names the gemmae came with. In some cases not shown here I noticed an incorrect label as the resulting plants had an unexpected flower colour or - in case of a "clear white red centre" - came as a mix with an orange flowered form. Unfortunately, in that case I lost all the truly white flowered plants after I removed the orange ones :cry: Nice little selection there! I was wondering about the names of a couple of those pictured until your explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Hingst Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Hi Dieter - very nice! Really confusing with the many names for the "different" plants esp. with pulchella - I often wonder how many different - stable - forms exist and to what number they could be reduced. Anyway, pulchella forms are a small world of its own. And beautiful plants! Thanks Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Posted May 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 Hi Sean, I gathered whatever D. pulchella forms I could get hold of about 2 years ago and many had vary different names but turned out to be very similar to others. There certainly are differences between e.g. those "orange" forms, but the flower colour itself is very similar under my conditions. It may now be the case that many plants in circulation have incorrect names or different names for the same plant. That might happen if one or more wrong gemmae get mixed into a portion or that someone decides to give a plant a new name. As I do not want to add more confusion I decided to stick to the names they came with and to give others the chance to select the ones they would like to get by looking at the pictures. If there is way to correct the labels on my plants, I would happily do so, but at the moment I would not know where I could get a reference to sort this mess out. Cheers Dieter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 What a beautiful species!!! Maybe some of these deserve variety or cultivar status? Has anyone tried hybridizing these forms? Congrats! Fernando Rivadavia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glider14 Posted May 24, 2007 Report Share Posted May 24, 2007 this is mine. the color is dead on. i thought it was the pink/whte form...but mine is lighter Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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