| Common
Name: |
Butterwort |
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| Ornamental
Features: |
Insectivorous plant with rosettes of mucilage-secreting, lance-shaped to almost rounded leaves and leafless stems bearing solitary, spurred, 2-lobed, trumpet-shaped, pale purple flowers. The sticky leaves trap insects, which are then digested.
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| Habit
and Growth Rate: |
Stems are upright, glandular-h |
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| Landscape
Value: |
Grow as houseplants or in a temperate greenhouse. May be suitable for bogs. |
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| Hardiness: |
Zone 10 |
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| Culture: |
Out doors, grow in poor, peaty permanantly moist soil in full sun or partial shade. Keep birds or other animals from disturbing dormant buds on hardy species. |
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| Pot
Size & Finish Time: |
3 inch (4 to 6 weeks), 4 inch (8 to 10 weeks). |
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| Propagation
Methods: |
Tissue culture and division. |
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| Pest/Disease
Problems: |
Slugs and snails. |
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More
Information: |
PINGUICULA SP. CULTURE INFO:
MEDIA: 100% Canadian peat, Peat/Sand, Peat/Perlite
MEDIA MOISTURE MANAGEMENT: Range between 3-4(on 1-5 scale, 5 being an aquatic)
LIGHT: >3000 Ft candles
HUMIDITY: >50%
SOIL TEMP: keep between 65 and 90 degrees F
pH: 4.5 - 5.5
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