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Seeking a little info

schloaty

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Hi Guys, I was just the fortunate recipient of quite a nice package from Vertigo. In it there were several utics that I am unfamilliar with, and my google searches are oh-so frustrating.....I wonder if anyone could give quick care synopsis of any of the following:
longifolia, lateriflora, 'Mrs. Marsh,' tridenta, 'Asenath Waite,' calcyfida, tricolor, 'Lavina Whatley' and bisquamata.

Any tips greatly appreciated!
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This should at least narrow it down a bit.

'Mrs. Marsh', 'Asenath Waite,' and 'Lavina Whatley' are all cultivars of calcyfida.

Longifolia is a tropical if i'm not mistaken.

The rest as far as I know, heck, keep them all wet.
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U. 'Mrs. Marsh', 'Asenath Waite' and 'Lavina Whatley' are all cultivars of U. calcyfida, bred by Barry Rice. U. calcyfida likes warm, shady and humid conditions, I grow mine at the back of my lowland nepenthes terrarium. See the links on this page for details of these cultivars and Barry's paper on U. calcyfida, as well as lots of other useful online publications  Barry Rice's Publications.

U. lateriflora is an easy to grow terrestrial Utric from Australia and U. bisquamata is an easy S. African. Both of these species are self-pollinating in my collection, and care should be taken, so that don't invade neighbouring pots. I find mine grow and flower well under the same conditions as most easy, small terrestrials such as U. sandersonii in peat/sand, kept wet.

I find U. tricolor likes it a bit wetter than some terrestrial Utrics, and grow it with the water level with the soil surface most of the time. It's easy enough to grow, but tricky to get the conditions right for flowering (at least it is for some! ). See this recent thread, U. tricolor.

U. longifolia is one of the 'larger-flowered' S. American Utrics that I find grows well in an mix of LFS, peat and perlite (1:1:1). I keep wet-damp rather than flooded.

I haven't grown my U. tridentata long enough to offer much advice, I'm just growing it in peat/sand, like the other small terrestrials.

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Thanks a bunch guys! That's very helpful info. Now maybe I won't kill them.....
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I`m pretty sure that longifolia is an epiphetic species.
 
It is not from what I have heard.
 
U. longifolia is a terrestrial plant by habit, CP2k is correct, however it is also known to grow epiphytically and sub affixed.

I believe the confusion Pond Boy has is a mistake that is often made, that of thinking longifolia as an epiphytic becaue it has large flowers like U. alpina, endresii and the like and these plants are commonly refered to as the "epiphytes" (a term that is also misapplied here as the majority of these groe as terrestrials as well.) D'Amoto made this same mistake in his book and since it is commonly refered to as the CP bible it is easy to understand how this mistake has a life of its own
 
The confusion extends back at least as far as the previous CP Bible "Carnivorous Plants" by Adrian Slack, published in 1979. I assume that this is where the confusion first arose, and has simply been propogated (pun not intended) by D'Amato.
 
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