triggerplant001: Stylidium turleyae

[sweetpea]

Stylidium turleyae

[bluemax]

I enjoyed the flowers, Sweetpea, especially the pink ones. I had to look up the triggerplant, though, and I'm amazed. For anyone else unfamiliar with this one here's a good link to info:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triggerplant

So, is this a commonly available genus of plants?

- Mark

[jeff]

use also these florabase

for the stylidium

florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/search/advanced?genus=stylidium&PHPSESSID=de0438978d448ae12ab1da18c...&page=1

for the levenhookia

florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/search/quick?q=levenhookia

a lot of infos with a lot of picture species by species.

jeff

[sweetpea]

Dear Bluemax-san,

Konnichiwa!

It is nice to hear you like this species. I've seen a few photos that were taken in the wild. A plant in the photo was far gorgeous compared with my plant!

Mar 24, 2011 5:50:38 GMT bluemax said:

So, is this a commonly available genus of plants?

- Mark

This is an available Stylidium species. (though I'm not a world wide distributer.

Kind regards

[kitkor]

Very beautiful! I didn't immediately recognize the species. Which one is it? I grow Stylidium graminifolium and Stylidium debile, which is the most widely available plant in the US. All other species usually have to be grown from seed.

May I ask what soil composition you use? Do you use fertilizer?

Thanks!

[sweetpea]

Dear Kitkor-san,

Konnichiwa!

I agree the Stylidium species are very beautiful.
I always enjoy cultivating triggerplants from Mr. Allen Lowrie. I am a horticulturist not a taxonomist. So please ask Mr. Allen Lowrie any species questions. This species is Stylidium turleyae. Please see the abaxial (outer) surface colour of this species flower's.

About the cultivation,
I reckon that you can obtain Canadian peat in the U.S.A.. Unfortunately you might not be able to obtain other materials that I used for my mixture such as perlite, charcoal, sand etc.

For Stylidium debile and wetland species, I use a soil composition that is same or similar for Byblis liniflora. For other Stylidium species, I use another soil composition that is same or similar for Byblis gigantea. My mixture for Byblis liniflora is an airy mixture of 75% peat and 25% kanumatsuchi. . My mixture for Byblis gigantea is much more airy mixture of 20-40% peat, 10-15% charcoal, 15-40% kanumatsuchi and 10-20% perlite.
In the bottom of the pot, I put a small amount of charcoal.

Perlite: Japanese grain type.
Charcoal: made from rice seed husk. The pH of this rice-husk charcoal is neutral to slightly acid.
Kanumatsuchi: The kanumatsuchi expanded clay is acid expanded volcanic gravel. It is very light.

As you live in the United States. I recommend you ask "how to grow Stylidium species " from Dr. Darnowski, who is a world expert on Triggerplants.

Kind regards

[kitkor]

Excellent! Thank you so much for sharing the cultivation information. I'll have to try some of these substrates. We have plenty of perlite and expanded clays, so I will test the pH and try those combinations you suggested. My S. debile does just fine with 50% peat and 50% perlite, but I have a feeling it would do well in many substrates.

I have been in touch with Dr. Darnowski and have purchase some plants from him. He's a great source for information on Stylidium.

Thanks again! Cheers!

[sweetpea]

Konnichiwa!

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Please see the International Trigger Plant Society (ITPS) journal No. 2.
The ITPS journal No. 2 is available as a free pdf download from
www.triggerplants.org