Sarracenia ID

[Jonathan F.]

Can someone ID this sarracenia for me, As it was from the Blue Lagoon Aquatics and it was in a pond full of sarracenia and koi carp as thay where selling them as aquatic pond plants.

[Alexis]

Doesn't look like pure rubra or pure alata - both of which can feature the red lids.

Possibly ahlsii - a hybrid of the two. An orangey flower would back this idea up.

[Phil Green]

I'd guess that it's S x rehderi ( minor x rubra ). I've seen it in garden centres (which is where mine came from a few years ago), so I suspect it's one of the many that get distributed by Carniflora.

[Jonathan F.]

I'd guess that it's S x rehderi ( minor x rubra ). I've seen it in garden centres (which is where mine came from a few years ago), so I suspect it's one of the many that get distributed by Carniflora.

That was my guess too as S x rehderi. :sun_bespectacled:

[maverick]

This indeed is a Carniflora hybrid, I know and grow the plant too.

The flower indeed is rather orangish.

So there probably is indeed some rubra in it, but please don't tag it with a specific hybrid name, if it comes from Carniflora you can never be sure about the parentage.

Good luck!

[Phil Green]

Maverick - your plant must be very different to mine then. The flower on mine is very much like a rubra flower - small and red. The pitchers are also obviously rubra - spindley in spring and more stout in Autumn, but with obvious minor influence.

But yeh - you can never be certain exactly what is in the majority of Carniflora hybrids. So they are just 'best guesses' and not certain identities to be passed on when sold.

[Jonathan F.]

The flowers on the other sarracenia like this was small and red, This is the plant lable named maroon?

[Phil Green]

Yeh, you can disreguard anything written on their labels. Your lucky to even get the same genera. The pic of their 'maroon' is clearly a purp hybrid and of no relation to yours.

[Wouter Noordeloos]

Hi All,

I know the label in the blue label was shown . It's NOT Carniflora, but another dutch nursery of waterplants that's grows a small range of Sarracenia's, all of them wrong labelled.

This company, specialized in waterplants started to grow a few Sarracenia-species and hybrids 2 years ago.

www.moerings.com

Ironicly they not mention Sarracenia's on their website.

The Sarrnia's look quite different than the greenhouse Sarrenia's which we used to see at the gardencentres. First they grow the plants outside I think, becauce the pitchers are very compact and they are very clump-forming (I think because of TC) And all the plants are lack of good coloration.

I don't like their plants, I prefer Carnifloraplants because they look more colourfull and proper.

I'm a boardmember of the dutch CP society Carnivora and orginising the events and plantsales. I really like the plants of Carniflora more than the plants from Moerings.

Take care,

Wouter