Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Flowers and Foliage Now => Topic started by: Tristan_He on May 17, 2021, 09:35:58 PM
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The carnivorous plants are waking up now. As it's been a wet weekend I have been repotting terrestrial orchids and frits for their summer rest, and cleaning / deaphiding the Sarracenias for the sping.
My Sarracenias live in the conservatory most of the time, but during good weather (or when I want to take a photo) I bring them outside. Some of them are flowering.
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'Lynda Butt'
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S. flava var. rubricorpora 'Burgundy'
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'Red Sumatra'
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Although they are pretty tough, the new pitchers are vulnerable to aphid attack causing distortion, as here.
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An overwintering pitcher of S. alata black tube. It is quite dark but I think the name is a little optimistic!
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Pitcher plant pots can become whole ecosystems which I like. Here is a self-sown Dactylorhiza.
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..and more surprisingly, this looks like a clubmoss. Not sure where it came from but I may have scattered some spores at some stage and forgotten about it.
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I acquired this hybrid last year and it has already thrown a large pitcher. It looks very promising.
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Last year I tried growing some from seed, and I now have a lot of seedlings coming on. You can see lots of variation already.
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Tristan, could your clubmoss be a Polytrichum?
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Hi Ian, it certainly could be, and there is Polytrichum in the pot. But this looks a bit different from the rest - can't exactly put my finger on it. Looking at it again though maybe just the male gametophyte? I've only come across sporophytes of this before.
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Nice examples of extrafloral nectaries, on Nepenthes.