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Sep 30, 2006 00:17 |  #1

Here is a shot of a plant I have growing in a planter out the back, can you guess what is it, I will be very impressed if you can pick what it parentage is (it is a hybrid) :D

This one has a particularly nice flower, I also have one up that has a yellow flower and longer petals and smells like cats pee, this one has a fairly normal fragrance.

It is normally grown for its leaves, but its flowers are quite interesting too, it flowers in spring before any leaves are formed (there is a really good reason for this ;) )

Last clue it is a North American native...

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Sep 30, 2006 06:19 |  #2

Looks like the flower of a hooded pitcher plant but I've never seen one entirely red. The wild ones I see are usually a combination of purplish and yellowish-green.

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Sep 30, 2006 06:34 |  #3

Here's a photo of a wild growning Hooded Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia minor) I took this summer. I've never seen either in the wild but we have two species S. rubra and S. purpurea that both have dark red flowers.

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Sep 30, 2006 14:28 as a reply to  @ Rubberhead's post |  #4

Good spotting! I would love to see them in the wild!

This one isn't a hooded picture plant (Sarracenia minor) like the ones you have found but a complex hybrid that is most probably not found in the wild, I do know there is the White Pitcher (S.leucophylla) and something else with dark red upright leaves parentage, hence the red flower.

I have about 10 pitcher plants of different varieties sitting in two planters out the back, needless to say I have very few bugs ;)


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