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I grow it room temp under a humidity dome. It's the BE-3726 but unfortunately it's very hard to find since it's an older hybrid. They pop up a couple of times a year on ebay. That's where I got mine.

Yep! Ampullaria genes are crazy strong. They're like the basset hound of carnivorous plants, where you know instantly when you see a hybrid, because it looks mostly like an amp with different detailing. These are (in order) ampullaria x raffelsiana, ampullaria x veitchii, and ampullaria x hamata

Thanks yes usually they're some combination of red, green and purple.

Nepenthes ampullaria (variegated) This lil guy was just a tiny sprout when I got it but it's finally starting to leaf-jump a bit. I don't think there's a lot of these carnivorous plants out there.

And sunlight warms the wet soil faster than it warms air, so there's a lot keeping the soil warm compared to the air freezing the soil.

There's lots of natural insulation going on in wild bogs. That's part of why it can be a pain to grow the same plants in pots, b/c there's less/no insulation. The fact that they're constantly wet is most important, b/c water has 4x the heat capacity of air, so it's hard for air to cool the wet soil.

FWIW this is the range for s. purpurea from wikipedia. They're quite fine with cold. They're either insulated under snow cover or leaf fall. As long as the rhizome doesn't freeze then you're fine.

I'm up north but we see <10 days/year below freezing. I just bring them inside when it drops <30F. Their dormancy is triggered by photoperiod more than temperature.

Also if you're using distilled and have multiple salt sensitive plants, then I recommend grabbing this: www.amazon.com/dp/B00204CQF6 I bought mine in jan 2023 and have been using it since then. Great RO system and you wouldn't guess it by the price.

Yeah the big cream pot has small drain holes, but I stuffed them with long-fiber sphag to reduce the drain rate. The built-in tray holds a bit of water, and I water every day or two. Their planters might not have holes, some people grow them that way. I like the o2 from drainage though.

3 parts peat, 1 part perlite. I use reverse-osmosis water for it, but low-mineral tap water is fine too. I repot every 2-3 years. It likes to stay really wet.

I have had this sarracenia flava potted for >10 years. It's one big rhizome underneath the soil. They really like to be fertilized with a balanced non-urea fertilizer when they're potted. For a pot that size I use a couple dozen grains of osmocote 3x yearly, plus monthly half-strength maxsea.

Sarracenia x 'Saurus' is coloring up nicely too. I sourced this directly from the man himself, Phil Faulisi. 2nd most expensive plant in my collection but worth every penny.

I love a nice sarracenia leucophylla and this is definitely a nice one. It's one of the unlabelled mixed rhizomes that I got from @calcarnivores.bsky.social a couple of years ago.

One month makes all the difference. Sarracenia flava, sold as 'maxima' but it doesn't have the yellow flowers. It's all the same rhizome as one giant pitcher plant.

Apparently plants can have good hair days. Moss going bananas as well! Another reminder that spring has sprung. 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plantaddict #plants #foliage

Apparently plants can have good hair days. Moss going bananas as well! Another reminder that spring has sprung. 🌱

#heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plantaddict #plants #foliage

I just love the contrast of this new growth with the mature pitchers on this heliamphora pulchella AW - ISC. It's been a very vigorous grower for me, one of my tallest pulchellas and clumps like all the others. The venation is also spectacular! 🌱 #heliamphora #carnivorousplants #pitcherplants #botany #horticulture #nature #plantscience #plantphotography #photography #natureisbeautiful #plantaddict #plants #terrariumplants #foliage

I just love the contrast of this new growth with the mature pitchers on this heliamphora pulchella AW - ISC.

It's been a very vigorous grower for me, one of my tallest pulchellas and clumps like all the others. The venation is also spectacular! 🌱

#heliamphora #carnivorousplants #plantphotography

Hybrid carnivorous plant, Sarracenia x 'Saurus' opening up next to its flowers. It's 75cm/30in from soil to tip of the pitcher. This spring I crossed it with another of my extra-tall pitcher plants to try to grow my own giant hybrid.

The sibling carnivorous plant of my last post, this is nepenthes veitchii (k) x [maxima x (stenophylla x lowii) x (Rokko x veitchii)]. The stripe colors are very similar but this has recently developed the classic veitchii flared peristome.

I would have to dig up the paper, but iirc amps also produce lower levels of the digestive enzymes, depending more on the pitcher flora for digestion, like sarracenia purpurea. It's definitely a unique niche in an already niche group of plants.

It's also a "vegetarian" carnivorous plant. The way it absorbs nutrients in its pitchers is similar to other nepenthes species, but it's more optimized for absorbing dead leaves that it catches as it sprawls across the jungle floor.

That's a sarracenia something making flowers haha

I've had this carnivorous plant for about 18 months and it just keeps surprising me with the shocking colors. Seedgrown nepenthes [((lowii x veitchii) x boschiana) x burbidgea]-purple x [maxima x (stenophylla x lowii) x (Rokko x veitchii)]

#sarracenia start growth later at higher latitudes, but it's quite worth the wait. This is my 13 year old flava 'maxima' that reliably grows 20+ inch tall pitchers. It's my oldest carnivorous plant. I cut off about 15 flower buds a few weeks ago to let it focus on pitcher production.

Nepenthes spectabilis x platychila BE-3760 is developing the stripes of the spectabilis and the peristome shape of platychila. Mine is developing more of a tubular shape than expected, but I really like its progress so far.

Genomic Insights into the Evolution of Carnivory in the Giant Butterwort, Pinguicula gigantea: Chromosome-Level Assembly and Phylogenomic Analysis Carnivorous plants provide a powerful system for studying plant morphological and physiological evolution. These plants capture and digest prey for nutrients and this rare trait has evolved independen...

Genomic Insights into the Evolution of Carnivory in the Giant Butterwort, Pinguicula gigantea
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Genome sequence and RNA-seq analysis reveal genetic basis of flower coloration in the giant water lily Victoria cruziana
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#nepenthes naga x tenuis seedgrown

Flytraps.com made a batch as an exclusive hybrid a couple of years ago and I snagged one. It's nearly black irl

Complex #nepenthes hybrid from toddstropicals on ebay, this is consistently one of my showiest carnivorous plants

North America has the a huge variety of carnivorous plants. Two genus of pitcher plants with dozens of species, several sundews, a couple of butterworts, several bladderworts, and ofc flytraps.

Effects of prey, pitcher age, and microbes on acid phosphatase activity in fluid from pitchers of Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae) Carnivory in pitcher plants generally involves digestion of prey, by the plant itself, by symbionts, or both. While symbionts appear to be important in the digestion of prey in Sarracenia purpurea, th...

Actually older s purpurea pitchers are better at digestion. However the digestion is strongly related to microbes, which don’t bother the duckweed. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...