locko
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Post by locko on Jun 28, 2007 14:51:14 GMT
Hi I noticed this growing in a pot with my dormant sarra not unexpected but this is different because this pot has never been anywhere near the 3 Utricularia I own. Sarra lives outside Utricularia inside I know from what ive read that some utrics grow natural within about 100km or less from where i live could any1 identify it or would it need a flower. I only noticed it because recently frost froze this pot solid and its still alive after that.
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Post by thwyman on Jun 28, 2007 16:43:46 GMT
You'll need flowers to be sure but odds are it is subulata. All it takes is a miniscule piece hanging on to the plant from whoever sent it to you in the first place.
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Post by Aidan on Jun 28, 2007 17:51:49 GMT
Or perhaps, that other weedy invasive - U. bisquamata.
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locko
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Post by locko on Jun 29, 2007 1:09:18 GMT
Ok thanks for the replies very helpful. Not some native species (crushed my dreams lol)
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Post by Aidan on Jun 29, 2007 1:29:07 GMT
Our answers are not definitive and are just educated guesses. U. subulata and U. bisquamata are both highly invasive and are the most likely hitchhikers to have arrived with the plant.
Many small-leaved Utricularia look very much alike until they flower and what you have might still be an Australian native.
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Post by Sean Spence on Jun 29, 2007 1:54:45 GMT
Doesn't look like any native species that grows in NSW. My guess would be U. subulata as well.
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Post by Dave Evans on Jul 3, 2007 6:18:29 GMT
Dear Locko, Utricularia subulata is a really nice plant. You can flower it by giving it a cold/very cool dormancy. It should be exposed to frosts for a couple of weeks. Without a good cold period, it just makes round balls instead of flowers and makes masses of stolons which can be visually unappealing. Checkout my site: www.rci.rutgers.edu/~dpevans/U_subulata.htmThis is what the plants can do when they get the correct dormancy. Most growers despise U. subulata, but that is because it cannot grow well when treated like a tropical plant...
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Post by Aidan on Jul 3, 2007 8:59:11 GMT
The reason for disliking U. subulata (and a few others like it) is its highly invasive nature and this may be a problem, particularly in Utricularia collections. I suspect that most of us with collections of any size grow the plant whether we want to or not. It is an able hitchhiker. The form that I unfortunately find amongst my plants always has cleistogamous flowers and it grows under the temperate conditions described.
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locko
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Post by locko on Jul 3, 2007 9:31:57 GMT
Dave this photo was taken just after a frost so mabey I might get lucky with some nice flowers like in the link. I do have a pot of subulata in tropical conditions so may move that outside as well. thanks
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Post by locko on Oct 9, 2007 1:40:38 GMT
It flowered and I thought some people might want to know that it was as suspected U. subulata. The cold weather it experienced out side worked great like you said Dave. I only got one flower with the indoors plant but have quite a few coming up on this one and the yellow colour is alot stronger.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2007 22:16:30 GMT
nice coloration...... i will hopefully be getting some of these plants soon also...
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