Drosera callistos x eneabba

[dieter]

Dear all,
 
here are a few pictures I made of one of my new hybrids recently. Last year I was able to get 11 seedlings from the seed batch and the first plants started to flower a couple of weeks ago.
 
This is what the plants look like:

 
These are not last year's seedlings, it is already the next generation grown this winter. 
 
The flower is very much influenced by D. callistos: 

 

 
Some days later 5 different individuals were in flower. The variation seems to be very limited. This is not always the case as you will see once I post pictures of another new hybrid:











 
 I hope you like them!
 
Cheers
Dieter

[hcarlton]

That is beautiful! I've made a few sundew hybrids, but never had the chance to cross pygmies..... the orange and red in the flowers are stunning.

[dieter]

The pygmies are quite interesting due to the variation in flower colour etc. Unfortunately, the biggest problem is to convince the seeds to germinate. You do not know want to know my overall germination rates, even though I obtained 11 seedlings for this specific cross.
Fortunately, it usually is enough to obtain a single seedling. You won't get any variability by this but as you can see in the example above, you may not get it with 11 seedlings either. There are other examples like the D. helodes x omissa cross I may have posted last year: 4 out of 5 seedlings flowered so far, 3 are white and 1 is rose in color.

Currently, I am waiting for the second plant to open a flower of this hybrid: forum.carnivoren.org/index.php?/topic/37114-d-closterostigma-x-leucoblasta/ I can promise that the color will be very different as saw its first flower when it was nearly closed. The nexr flower will open in 1-2 days, the color is already visible and it will indeed be completely different from the one on the photo.

Anyway, I probably could write long stories about pygmy (and tuberous) drosera hybridization, but I do not want to bore you much more with this. But I promise more pictures of some stunning successful crosses.

Cheers
Dieter