A few new plants

I recently had some extra plants that some people apparently thought were quite desirable, and have ended up with a nice handful of recent acquisitions.


I had a very limited Pinguicula collection (before all the trades, just a primuliflora), and I still do––just a bit less limited. From one grower I ended up recieving P. moranensis "A," P. agnata "Red Leaf," and P. 'Pirouette.' They don't look like much now, but hopefully they will grow fast.

P. moranensis "A"

P. agnata "Red Leaf"

As you can see, I attempted several leaf pullings from this plant with leaves that fell of during shipping, but they didn't take. I guess you can't have it all.

P. 'Pirouette'

From the same grower I got a D. natalensis. This guy recovered very fast from shipping and is now munching on some betta pellets.

D. natalensis

Another grower I traded with sent me a D. capensis "Big Pink" and a P. gigantea. I'm really excited to see how they turn out.


I can't wait for the Big Pink to acclimate so I can start feeding it like crazy. Mature plants of this variety are so pretty.

D. capensis "Big Pink"

Sorry for the horrible photo of the P. gigantea, I was trying to get the actual plant instead of the plant through the plastic bag. Anyways, it almost looks like it has succulent leaves? I don't really know, and since I'm the farthest from an expert in Mexican butterworts as a person can be, I'm not going to be too worried about it. I'll probably wait until it's done acclimating and then ask around. 

P. gigantea

Yet another grower sent some leaf cuttings (D. hamiltonii, D. prolifera, D. capensis "Wide Leaf," and D. binata var. multifida f. extrema in case you were wondering. I'm sure you weren't) and a D. venusta plantlet that is still acclimating: the person who sent it to me said that it was previously grown under 100% humidity, so I'm not going to take any chances with quick acclimatization. It's starting to dew up though, so maybe I can start removing the bag soon.

D. venusta

Yet another grower (apparently lots of people don't have D. latifolia :) ) sent the D. nitudula gemmae I talked about in the previous post and a D. brevifolia. The D. brevifolia he sent was packaged amazingly. Actually. It was dewing up after only a day under the bag, and it was out of the bag two days later. And it's still sporting that flower stalk! This plant might be my favorite plant in the collection right now...

D. brevifolia (Warren, Texas)

 A bit before all of this trading, I bought a D. tomentosa var. tomentosa (Maro de Jambeiro, Graomogol, Brazil). It's redness and cute factor of 1000000 makes up for its long name. I'm really looking forward to these guys sending up some fuzzy flower stalks.

D. tomentosa var. tomentosa (Maro de Jambeiro, Graomogol, Brazil).
Whew, it's hard just saying it!

Trading is hard and time consuming, but it's so fun. You get to help out other growers while expanding your collection! It's a win/win, so why not do it?

Seeds, seedlings, and gemmae

This post is not going to be that pretty. Sorry! I'll try to make next post better ;).

Like I mentioned in my first post, I love propagating. Most of my collection right now is either seeds, seedlings, or plantlets. So let's take a look!

This is a seedling of D. arenicola. It's the first one out of three seedlings so far to send out a carnivorous leaf. I tried water germination with these seeds, and I think many of them rotted when I transferred them to media. Oh well, I have more seeds so if this doesn't work I can try again I suppose. I'm really looking forward for this guy to grow up (hopefully), because the adults look absolutely spectacular.

This is the only D. capensis 'Albino' seed that sprouted from a pretty heavy sowing around three months ago. The seed was quite old though, so I guess I'm lucky I got anything at all. It's shaping up to be a pretty cute plant, though.

I had a few more D. capensis "Red" seeds sprout, but the seedlings for some reason weren't as vigorous as the single 'Albino' seedling. You can definitely see the difference in color though, although it's definitely not as pronounced as it will be when they grow up.

These D. finlaysoniana seedlings are a bit older than the capensis seedlings up above, and they're the second generation––the seeds were ones I got from my own plants. I added extra sand to they're media, to the point that the soil is more like peaty sand than sandy peat. They seem to like it though.

I also tried water germination with D. burmannii (Humpty Doo, Australia), but it didn't really work out so well either. This sprout is the only one that survived. I sowed some more seed on top of the media, so hopefully that will germinate too. If it doesn't, I'll at least be able to carry on the colony with this one plant. Stay alive, little guy!

The only species that did okay on water germination was D. riparia. I have at least 4 sprouts right now, and they all have multiple carnivorous leaves on them. I just started acclimating them out of their humidity tents, so hopefully I can feed them soon and really speed up their growth.

I also sowed some D. madagascariensis seeds a couple of days ago. Nothing to see yet, but I just wanted to document it. I really hope some of these seeds germinate, because I've been looking for D. madagascariensis for a while.

Although gemmae do seem to be a lot like seeds, they're actually quite different, Nonetheless, most people treat them a lot like seeds, so I decided to include them in this post. These are D. nitudula gemmae.

And, to reward viewers on coming to the end of this post, Here's a D. nitudula x pulchella flower!

I seriously have way to many of these. Maybe that will be a subject for an upcoming post.

A little introduction

     Hello, everybody. I'm mo_carnivore. I started collecting carnivorous plants around 2 years ago, and since then my collection and interests have gone through many different evolutions. Right now I'm into sundews, but that might change in the future!

     One thing's for sure though, and that's that I like the unusual. I'll lap up rare species, cultivars, or location forms of anything. I also have some other plants that I might post about on the blog––right now, I have some Rex begonia cuttings and some avocado pits sprouting. I like the challenge of propagating plants––you feel rewarded when the plant that first was a seed or leaf or root becomes its own wonderful individual!

     This blog is half for me. I have long struggled with a way to adequately document my collection and its growth. Therefore, I will mainly be posting about my sundews and probably a lot of propagation attempts.

     I'm excited to start this blogging journey! Let's get right into the plants!