Re: Re: Big Bladders

John Taylor (rphjt@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU)
Wed, 1 Feb 1995 22:22:59 +1100

To: Multiple recipients of list <cp@opus.hpl.hp.com>

>For Utrics with large bladders, you're making life hard for yourself looking
>for _U.humboldtii_ because this plant is considered very desireable to CPers
>and would be hard to obtain. I suggest you go with _U.longifolia_ which has
>quite respectable bladders and grows very quickly. You can let stolons grow
>into soil-free water and then obtain very nice views of the bladders. It is
>a vigorous grower and will tend to do this anyway out of the bottom of the
>pot!

I've also noticed that U. dichotoma will produce much larger bladders than
"normal" from the stolons growing out of the bottom of my pots (just in the
water tray - no soil). These larger bladders are at least a few millimetres
across.

Another terrestrial is U. praelonga which has largish bladders (2 or more mm
across). I find this plant quite undemanding to grow. As a bonus, it has
large, attractive yellow flowers.

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