Re: P. ehlersae

John Taylor [The Banshee] (rphjt@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
Mon, 3 Aug 92 14:16:09 +0000

>John, P.ehlersae is featureless? I hope you're talking about the flower. I've
>wanted one of those ever since I saw it in Slack(?). Lowrie's got some seed of
>this plant for sale and I'll be ordering from him soon.

Yes, the flower is a basically just a standard Pinguicula flower. 5 wedge
shaped petals (standard pale lilac/pink/purple shade) - 2 up 3 down. The
leaves seem to be the feature of this plant according to Slack. They're
supposed to be pink on the underside? The nice Pinguicula shown above ehlersae
in Slack's (2nd) book is "species nova #4" - this *is* a nice plant with its
possibly unique dark-centred pale flowers (as opposed to the normal light
-centred dark flowers or most Pinguics.). I'm pretty sure we have some #4
plants at home (they certainly look like it) - funnily enough, they were
supposed to be P.ehlersae! Plant mislabeling can work to the buyers advantage
(occasionally). ;-)