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Truncata's usually have a fluted red peristome and large squarish red to purple to even blackish splotches in the throat in the pitcher. Leafs are typically green to light green but in the highland form they are reddish.
Well. I know what truncatas look like... I've seen striped peristomes (or maybe that was a diff plant... maybe nto tho! heh...), solid red, then theres the black variety rampuppy showed us... I was just wondering what this particular clone looked like...
No idea. You'd have to ask Phil. BTW, many clones of truncata usually are pretty much the same.
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I know the pitchers on mine have peristomes that start out green with some red stripes, turning to a dark orange striped with red over time. The top of the pitchers and the wings tend to develop a little bit of red, but for the most part, stays green. The only other reds on the plant are on the growth point, and petioles in bright light.
Just curious, when will the pitchers start developing their characteristic shape? The pitchers it is putting out now, about 3" looks nothing like pics of large mature truncatas.
The pitchers are still Polymorphic, they shoudl morph into mature ones soon enough. Truncata will make huge pitchers in a very short tiem but it isn't the fastest grower, so better since it takes longer to grow but in that tiem it make be making a larger nearer mature looking pitcher.
I admit, this truncata is not from pet flytrap but here's how a plain lowland green one from the orchid shop colored up after groiwng under 240 watts of flourescent light
whole plant
pitcher:
I'm anxious to get hold of a few highland red varieties cos Rob has some really amazing looking highland truncatas on his site from bright red to almost pitch black!
nathaniel, you got a really good eye there yes it does have 2 offshoots. just going to wait a long time before i split them up. still to small to do anything with them.
My truncata sat like a lump for a long time after I acquired it. It finally started growing but verrry slowly. It also has produced a basal shoot with little pitchers in spite of its small size. I was shocked about a week ago to find its thrown a nearly 5" pitcher! It just appeared out of nowhere! I expected it to gradually produce larger pitchers so this slow grower has produced the largest pitcher than any of my other neps. However, my raff is still the winner in my opinion with its many many red speckled pitchers. I am hoping my bical and ampullaria will do as well.
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