Category Archives: Low Nutrient Environments

Pinguicula laueana – a clever little brute in a pretty scarlet-red suit

Posted on March 17, 2014 by chris

Although this plant looks quite innocent and harmless with gorgeous red flowers and small, compact leaved rosettes, it ‘eats’ with great appetite little insects using unique, highly sophisticated and efficient traps. Together with the genera Genlisea and Utricularia, Pinguicula belongs … Continue reading →

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Mexican Butterworts – Pinguicula

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Alastair Culham

The latest arrivals to the tropical greenhouse are a set of Pinguicula species originating in Mexico and some hybrids and cultivars derived from them. These add to the plants of Pinguicula laueana we have been growing there for the past … Continue reading →

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Lentibulariaceae (The Bladderwort Family)

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Tom Cooper

Overview Lentibulariaceae are herbaceous, terrestrial, epiphytic or aquatic carnivorous plants. The leaves can be alternate, scattered on stolons or whorled in rosettes, entire or divided, and sometimes heterophyllous (different shaped leaves on same plant). The inflorescences are terminal or lateral, … Continue reading →

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A look into the Carnivorous world- Nepenthaceae

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Garance

“The pitchers of Nepenthes possesses extraordinary power of digestion” … “The fact that a plant should secrete, when properly excited, a fluid containing an acid and ferment, closely analogous to the digestive fluid of an animal, was certainly a remarkable … Continue reading →

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Utricularia longifolia – a large flowered tropical bladderwort

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Alastair Culham

Utricularia longifolia Gardner was described from Pedra Bonita some 50 km north of Rio De Janeiro in the London Journal of Botany in 1842 in an article on the Flora of Brasil.  The page describing the species can be seen … Continue reading →

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Low nutrient habitats

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Alastair Culham

I’m working through the plans for the low nutrient habitat display in the glasshouse.  We already have a good range of epiphytic bromeliads and some epiphytic orchids.  There are also a range of carnivorous plants to be grown here including Heliamphora, … Continue reading →

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