Mitosis.....pinguicula style...say wha?

[SirKristoff]

Yeah this is pretty much a new one for me....
my P. ehlersiae has always been somewhat of a strange grower....then it started to flower finally, after a year and a half of owning it...this one came from Xvart some odd time ago when he gave me a good number of pings....
Well xvart, your plant is weird. enough said lol.
Its decided, from atleast what it looks like its doing, to split itself straight down the center....

 

[ieat100s]

Your right, that is weird. I LOVE IT!

 

[w03]

It's simply dividing, I don't see anything extremely weird about it. At least you have two plants now.

The real odd thing is... I thought that ehlersiae had a very compact rosette like
P. jaumavensis or P. esseriana (I really can't tell the three apart). Yours has longer, more spaced out leaves. However, the flower morphology matches. Hmmmm..

 

[SirKristoff]

w03
the plant was on a windowsill a couple weeks ago after i moved it in from the greenhouse. it did, at one point have that compact rosette going...
now that its back under a couple CFLs, its flowering, and hopefully will resume its compact growth.
ive never had one of my pings split down the center, so its weird for me

 

[w03]

In any case, great plant (love your vent x angasanensis as well!). What soil are you using for the ping?

 

[SirKristoff]

the ping if i recall correctly is peat/perlite/vermiculite....
here is a P. agnata growing in the same mix

 

[w03]

Whoa... the color on that P. agnata is... ...amazing!

 

[marvin1997]

My P. emarginata spilted too...but into threeeeeee

 

[back2eight]

yeah, my pings do that.

 

[Capensis]

Lolwut.

 

[rattler]

Last year my P. 'John Rizzi' split into five plants as it entered winter growth and started flowering. It's growing like a geodesic dome now with rosettes forming the polygons, if that makes any sense. A leaf pulling division of this cultivar is now doing the same as the light levels decrease.

 

[Baylorguy]

This is actually quite common at least in my pings and seems to correspond with when they are flowering. So far these plants have divided:

P. emarginata, P. 'Pirouette', P. agnata.

 

[jrod]

Last year my P. 'John Rizzi' split into five plants as it entered winter growth and started flowering. It's growing like a geodesic dome now with rosettes forming the polygons, if that makes any sense. A leaf pulling division of this cultivar is now doing the same as the light levels decrease.

 

[petmantis]

This is actually quite common at least in my pings and seems to correspond with when they are flowering. So far these plants have divided:

P. emarginata, P. 'Pirouette', P. agnata.

 

[SirKristoff]

Lol im sure it is common, its just a first for me with my pings...and its only happened with this one.

 

[jimscott]

I'm wondering if leaves just plain got separated from the center and started new plants.

 

[blokeman]

Every time my pings flower, they also split at the same time. (p. weser, moranensis, moranensis giant)

Off topic, but my d. alicia splits occasionally when it flowers, but i want a tall uniform tube, so i just pluck out the new growth and it resumes back to one growth point. I don't think this would be applicable or even worth it for pings though, just thought i'd throw that in...

 

[marvin1997]

Hi joseph may I know what is "Nomenclature adjustment"?

 

[blokeman]

i assume he used a word that was not as tolerated as 'amazing' is tolerated.

from wiki:
Nomenclature refers to either a list of names and/or terms, or to the system of principles, procedures and terms related to naming - which is the assigning of a word or phrase to a particular object or property.

 

[SirKristoff]

Well the damn thing wont stop flowering, sorry its a crappy photo, its with my iPhone,