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It does pretty well in my terra as you can see. I flood its undrained pot, it seems to like that. Although I hear you to have to repot terrestrial Utrics oftenly.
I had a pot of U. sandersonii in a pot of peat : perlite 1:1, and it grew a thick lush matt, then the center started to die and it spread out to the edge.
I have a pot of U. sandersonii, undrained, in LFS 100%, it was slow to take over, but it seems to be growing fine now. I flood occasionally with pond water to fertilize.
Hmmm, according to Professor Wikipedia, this is a lithophytic species (it grows on rocks). Makes sense that repotting it into fresh soil helps it grow, since it would have nutrients constantly brought to it by streams nearby in its habitat...
U. blanchetti and U. parthoenopipes are believed to have produced several natural hybrids. Add to that the normal variation in locations and you get the mess that is U. blanchetti and parthenopipes I'ding. There are somee posts around if you look for them talking about this. Very very very generally speaking the larger flower forms are probably closer to U. blanchetti and the tiny flower forms are likely closer to U. parthenopipes.
If you have a larger flower form of U. blanchetti and a smaller form of U. parthenopipes both flowering next to each other its easy to tell the two part, there flowers are not similiar, but get into the middle and .
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