Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 8:42:38 +0000 From: <mrwu@cello.qnet.com>(Howard J. Wu L.ac) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1837$foo@default> Subject: Re: U. firmula- A. Lowie
>Last year I picked up about 40 different Utricularia seeds from Allen
>Lowie. One of the very few that germinated for me was U. firmula. He
>listed this as "U. fimula- near Prestoria, RSA"
> What color were the flowers?? I saw this species near Pretoria 2
>years ago (maybe the seeds you got from Allen were from the batch I sent
>him...) and the small flowers were an extraordinarily strange shade of
>purple-grey, with yellow blotch at the base of the lower lip. A really
>interesting plant! If anyone else is growing and flowering this plant,
>I'd really like to hear feedback as to what color the flowers are in
>cultivation.
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Sound like what I have. This bloomed for me once some after getting
establish and I haven't yet seen it bloom again. Also after reading the
letter below I'm getting out my Taylor monograph.
Howard Wu
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>I too was sucessful in growing this species from seed. It was originally
>collected by Fernando on his trip round Southern Africa (hi Fernando!)in
>1998 I think. The plants flowered for the first time last autumn and on
>the basis of this and my trusty copy of Taylor, came to the conclusion
>that the plant is U.welwitschii rather than U.firmula. The small flowers
>are very unusual with a flower color I have never seen before, a realy
>strange mauve colour with the two inflated bulges on the palate orange.
>I believe Paul Debbert also made a collection of U.welwitschii from
>Pretoria.
>Loyd
>
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