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Utricularia menziesii

Anyone grow Utricularia menziesii?
I was just stumbling around the net and found some pictures of it.
Crazy red flowers, with a strange sort of rosette at the base. I don't have many Utrics but i thought this one was interesting.
Is it common and i just dont know about it?

from www.acps.org.au
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from dionee.gr.free.fr
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well i searched the forum, *ahem* after posting this
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, and found out some information, but id still like to any response.

thanks
-Chris
 
Yes, I grow this one and it is the most rare utric I grow. What kind of information are you looking for? It grows from a tuber and it goes dormant during the hot weather. I have yet to have it flower for me.
 
Hi Dave,
Well, that kind basically. How many people grow it, how easy or hard to grow (different for everyone I know). it's rare and hard to grow, so I won't need to learn more than the basics, since I won't get one untill I have more experience. I just thought it was a really nice plant.

Thanks,
-Chris
 
I know of only one other person on this forum who also grows it. There have been threads on the CPUK forum that have a lot more detail. I have found it easy to grow if the right conditons are maintained. In the growing season, I keep it cool under bright light in my basement using the tray method. I flood it every now and then. During the summer, I bring it outside to trigger dormancy. I eventually let the pot completely dry out and leave it outside in the shade until the September, then I bring it back to my basement to start the growing season again.

It has been a fun plant to grow and I do like it. Since the plant is used to "Australia" seasons, it was like a game to get it adjusted to growing in the northern hemisphere.

Good luck for when you decide to grow it.
 
It's a beautiful plant.  I like how the stolons form a nice rosette.  Too bad isn't available.
 
yeh to bad isnt it Brian, bet we could give it the equivilent to a hot Aussie summer couldnt we?
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i guess it must be sorta if rarly availible if you got your hands on it Dave. did you get yours as tuber or seed?
 
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Quote[/b] ]yeh to bad isnt it Brian, bet we could give it the equivilent to a hot Aussie summer couldnt we?

Yea, and then we have Dave over there hoarding his tubers. He probably has a sack of them stashed under his bed.
 
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shhhhhhhhhhh no one is supposed to know about his hoard, he is trading me 5 tubers for 20 D. capensis seeds so you just need to mind your own buisness Brian
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I bought them as tubers (in February of 2004) from an online cp source in the USA.
 
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