#butterwort

[nemfrog]

"Insectivorous plants Sundew and Butterwort." The natural history of plants. 1894.

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[5-and-a-half-acres]

My office butterwort is doing well

[poop-me-a-flower]

Happy pinguicula, I think.

(Pinguicula hybrid ‘Pirouette’)

[prince-liest]

Expanded my pinguicula collection! I'm extra excited for the gigantea; I've seen people grow them to be the size of their head!

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Same flower, two different days.

[kikobees]

Raspberry Blonde had flowered!

[fern-fri3nd]

Carnivorous plants in my school’s greenhouse

I love butterworts, some say they’re a little plane looking for carnivorous plants but I find them quite appealing

[kerynw]

Pings!

I re-potted my Mexican Butterworts today, two years after I got them. I've got three hybrid pings from California Carnivores and two of them have been very well behaved:

They are still in their succulent phase, but should start putting out proper carnivorous leaves now that they're re-potted and getting watered. The one on the left has an open flower (pink) and a second flower is already emerging from the center. The extra leaf was an accidental pull, they're fairly fragile but the individual leaves can root, so I left it in the pot.

The third ping, however, is a bit on the wild side:

Two years ago that was a single plant of this size and last spring I divided it into two plants. Now this! One of the plants is actually a set of two that I couldn't separate without breaking them and there's a small number of loose leaves in the upper right corner.

The pings get 14 hours of artificial light during their growing season, plus whatever light comes in the west-facing window above the kitchen sink. They get distilled water because my tap water is quite hard. They must be happy, to increase this much!

In a month or so, both pots should be entirely covered with leaves. My compost container is nearby, as are other plants, so they should be getting an occasional fruit fly or fungus gnat to absorb.