Sarracenia oreophila x purpurea subsp. venosa

This is a very nice plant i got from california carnivores early last year. I thought it had a neat trait on the one leaf, but for the next year it had none like that first leaf. I almost named it when it had that leaf, but i decided not to. These last few leaves it has made has the same trait that had me pick it out. It can also get a nice shade of red later in the season.

Venus Fly Traps

Yes, i do own some flytraps. I just have not had a chance to post any pics of them until today.

'a2'

'Red piranha' 

'jaws'

'big mouth'

FTS shogun star

CCPS auction

I just won a nice purpurea and some seeds from Fred P though the CCPS auction that ended this evening. I won a purpurea subsp. venosa "Brunswick bueaty" (shown above) and some S. purpurea subsp. venosa x wilkersons red seeds from him as well.

New FREE Plants

Yay. I just got two new plants in the mail. I got a wherry from a give away on Terrafourms and a rubra ancestral form from crawford co, GA from a kind member also on terrafourms. I cant wait to grow these out.

 Wherry 

S. rubra subsp gulfensis ? ancestral form Crawford co, GA

More Seeds

I harvested more seeds. I cant wait to package them up tonight :)

S. oreophila "sand mountain" x flava var. ornata (f1)

I also harvested some oreophilas and (S. leucophylla "Shnells gost" x S. readii) f1

Also over the next few days, i will be creating a sales page where i will have some seeds for sale if anyone s interested :)

Roseas from Chiplo river, Florida and from Baldwin Co, AL

This was the very first rosea i ever recived. I got it as a smaller plant late last year, and had one sad looking green leaf. It has done nothing since then, when it made a few very colorful fat leaves.

This next rosea i received

from Mike Wang early in the year. It looked very nice most of the year, but does not look that good right now, but it has several new leaves growing.

Purps

Purpureas are one of my favorite species. There are two subspecies, subsp. venosa is found south of Virginia and subsp. purpurea is found north of Virginia. They are some of the easiest cps to grow.

S. purpurea subsp. venosa Tantell, GA

This plant is from the southern most population of venosa, everything below that is rosea.

S. purpurea subsp. venosa Old Dock, NC (clone H)

S. purpurea subsp. purpurea f. heterophylla

This plant has no red coloration, since it is antho free

First Seed Harvest

This morning, i harvest me first seeds of the season. They are S. oreophila "alabama" x flava var. cupurea "BH". They seem healthy, the ones i am keeping are already stratifying. I had two flowers with this cross, one of them i thought was ready early in the year, and they were not viable.

These pictures of the parents are both taken by mike wang:

Sarracenia oreophila "alabama"

Sarracenia flava var. cupurea "BH"

The under appreciated rubras

It's that time of the year were Sarracenia rubras are making there fall leaves and I feel like most people dont care for this complex of plants.

I have found rubras to be really under appreciated in cultivation. Sarracenia rubra is difficult to classify, since some say that the simmilar small red flowers make the, the same species, with several subspecies.

The Format I Use

• S. alabamensis
• S. alabamensis subsp. wherry
• S. jonesii
• S. rubra
• S. rubra subsp. gulfensis
• S. rubra subsp. rubra

In cultivation, it seems that rubras are under appreciated due to there smaller size and really floppy pitchers in the spring and early summer. In the fall, when the plants are at there prime, they are amazing. I have found each one has a distinctive shape that I find very delightful.

S. alabamensis

This is a nice rubra. It has really floppy spring leaves, semi floppy summer leaves, and beautiful fall leaves. The leaves can reach a height of over a foot tall and can have feint areolations. They also can develop a nice golden color.

S. alabamensis subsp. Wherry

This subspecies looks like a smaller and a more plain, not as shapely alabamensis, but is more common in cultivation. My clone, from Chatom, Alabama, can reach much greater heights then  normal for the species. My clone also has a fall flower growing.

S. jonesii

This is a rare plant found in only a few counties in north and south Carolina. Like other rubras, this species has floppy spring leaves and nice shapely fall leaves. This species has a bulge in the upper part of the pitcher, giving the leaf a unique shape.

S. rubra subsp. gulfensis

This plant is the largest rubra. It can get up to 2 feet tall. My clone came from california carnivores. It seems like this subspecies does not have as big a difference between the spring and fall leaves.  My clone currently has one new leaf that is towering abouve all the other and is still growing. It also has a odd coloring pattern, where only the top half of the inside of the lid has red coloration.

Who am I?

Hello everyone. My name is Andrew. I live near Sacramento, in the middle of California. I am 14 years old, getting my first CP, a Venus Fly Trap "Big mouth" at a local orchid show back in spring 2012. In June of that year, i got a unknown sarracenia hybrid from a local nursery for my 6th grade graduation from my dad. After that, my collection took off. I mainly grow sarracenia and Venus fly traps, but i own a few drosera, and a single pingulica. I grow all my plants outside year round.

The point of this blog is to both keep updates of my collection, educate new members about these amazing plants, and to provide experienced growers with some interesting things to read and pictures to look at.

Thanks for reading.