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Utricularia stygia

I am expecting some turions of this species recently featured in the CPN December issue. Can anyone tell me a good storage method? Thanks!
 
I can tell you how NOT to store them. I had a number of U. intermedia turions that I placed in a plastic water bottle this fall and stuck into the frig for the winter. I went to get them last week and they were gone. My wife had tossed them out thinking that something spoiled. MORAL: clearly label your treasures; then tell spouse and kids to leave them alone.
 
OH NO! Bob that's terrible. Did your wife feel bad and get you a little extra for Christmas
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Chris Fieger, a long time CPer a friend of mine, wrote an article on temperate Utrics storing, and if I remember well, she putted them into a glass jar, perhaps Mason type, and stored them in the fridge until spring... Pretty similar to BobZ technique, and I second him, label your pots! Turion in peat water just look alike an old pickles jar
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I am wondering if I haven't read it on dodec's site ... If not, perhaps it was in the old CCPS article from 5 years ago...

Let just hope this technique apply to this species as well.
 
Well, if I ever do see them I will try, but I think this was a case of wishful thinking. Darn.
 
could anybody tell me how Utricularia stygia got it's name? was it a Scandinavian botanist (Linneus?) who named it?
 
Bjorn,

Just check the Carnivorous Plant Database to find out who the author of a plant species is. This is the data for U. stygia :

[b said:
Quote[/b] ]N: +[Utricularia stygia {Thor}]
P: Nord.J.Bot.8:219 (1988)
T: 2,5 km SE Strangsjoe, St.Malm par., Soedermanland, SE, 19. 6. 1986, G.Thor 6581 (S)
CLA: AST-SCR-LEN-UTR-UTR-UTR
L: US (Alaska), CA (Nova Scotia, Mackenzie), GB, DK, NO, SE, FI, DE, AT, CZ, SK
LFR:
1:
Arctic
2:
Atlantic Europe
3:
Central Europe
8:
Northern Europe
15:
Canada incl. Great Lakes

It was described by Goran Thor, a Swede in 1988 in the Nordic Journal of Botany.

Vic
 
ah... just wondering, cause stygg mean ugly in Norwegian
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