Kevin Tonnerre Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 I know, the dichotoma-complex is quite confusing and there might as well be more than just dichotoma, monanthos and novae-zelanidae, but one could also clump them together as one species. Anyways, i recieved this plant as Utricularia monanthos from Hartz mountain. I think this particular plant is also more or less common in cultivation and i wanted to ask you if your plant also looks like this. Because from what i know, U. monanthos actually makes rather small flower scapes, this one is 16cm high though. Did the grower, apart from giving me some "nice" cleistogamous U. subulata also mixed up the plants, or did this plant get a wrong labeling when it was collected? Any opinions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zlatokrt Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 Well, hard to say if you have any U. monanthos in your pot, but this looks like dichotoma to me. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenofeden Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 my monanthos flower stalks are only 2 or 3cm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Tonnerre Posted July 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2012 Okay, maybe i should rephrase: Does anybody grow U. monanthos from Hartz Mountain? I just want to know if all the plants circulating as U. monanthos from Hartz mountain are in fact dichotoma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An D Smith Posted July 9, 2012 Report Share Posted July 9, 2012 (edited) Hi Kevin I do not grow U. monanthos from the Hartz Mountains anymore, but I have seen it growing there in profusion, and the flower scapes only ever get to 2 - 3cm tall. As your flower scape is so much taller, I would say that yours is indeed U. dichotoma. I introduced seed of this species, from the Hartz Mountains, in 2007 - with seed sent all over Europe and the UK, as well as the USA and Canada, and all of this was pure U. monanthos. I am sure there have been plenty of other collections by other people and maybe some of these were wrongly labelled? Utricularia uniflora, which is the only other dichotoma group bladderwort to live in the Hartz Mountains is generally pink in colour, although I have seen white flowered forms. Cheers Andy Edited July 9, 2012 by An D Smith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Tonnerre Posted July 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2012 Okay, thanks for clearing that up. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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