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Sarracenia minor?

Bought from Lowes, and just labelled Sarracenia Pitcher Plant (no species).

Looks like a minor to me, but could be some hybrid. Any ideas? Hope the pic is good enough...

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My guess is 'Scarlet Belle' [leucophylla*psittacina]

Glenn
 
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.
 
Wow, one pitcher looks like it has leucophylla parentage, while the other to have minor parentage.
 
It looks like S. x wrigleyana in need of light. Give it direct sunlight and it will color up.
 
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.
 
I do that sometimes. They say S. wrigleyana isn't a very good bug catcher, don't say that to mine though. It doesn't know how to read
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[b said:
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.
pitchers stay swelled up with air and ready to open for a few days before they actually open, just be patient
 
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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.
 
  • #11
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.
 
  • #12
im clueless but it isnt minor, minor's lids hang obove the pitchers giving the ilusion of a smile, minor also has windows, a thin film on the pitchers
 
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