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Looking through BobZ's photo listing, mine does seem to look more like a S. x wrigleyana than anything else. It definitely isn't a minor like I originally thought. The newer pitchers are developing that wide, ruffly... what is the term, darn I can't remember... sail on the spine? I'll get another pic when I can.
Looks exactly like my S. x wrigleyana before I gave it full sun.
By the way...has anyone else had a problem where the pitchers on S. x wrigleyana wouldn't open w/out help? Mine seems perfectly healthy, but the pitchers just stay sealed shut unless I give them a bit of a squeeze.
Quote[/b] (LeftCoast @ July 15 2005,5:08)]Looks exactly like my S. x wrigleyana before I gave it full sun.
By the way...has anyone else had a problem where the pitchers on S. x wrigleyana wouldn't open w/out help? Mine seems perfectly healthy, but the pitchers just stay sealed shut unless I give them a bit of a squeeze.
Don't know why they won't open sometimes, but they won't, and putting the squeeze on them doesn't seem to hurt'em, so carry on. My own s. X wrigleyana seems to have some that open, and some that won't. I don't squeeze them myself, I just let them grow however they want to.
Being that you got it from Lowe's, I would say it is 'Scarlet Belle', as that is one of the few that have been in tissue-culture production and are sold to all those places that put them in those little pots with the clear dome. Highly unlikely that Lowe's would be selling a different wrigleyana, but I guess you never know.
As others have said, the plant is definitely light-starved. The pitchers should be almost a bright red.
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