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A wonderful leafy species with occasional flowers in summer. When it does flower, it can be quite spectacular. This one started to produce a flower spike in February and kept
going into July. There is some nomenclatural confusion around the proper application of the name U. reniformis. This is the large growing form
that might be referred to U. cornigera (Miroslav Studnicka).
In an article on the University of Oxford website, Kate Pritchard says: "Utricularia reniformis grows as an epiphyte on tussock grasses in the southern coastal mountains of Brazil, where it may also grows be an epiphyte on other epiphytes, e.g., bromeliads. In cultivation, Utricularia reniformis flowers in spring, together with emergence of the first leaves. These striking lilac flowers are held on a scape up to 60 cm high, above large, fleshy, kidney-shaped leaves. It has thick stolons that carry numerous traps on long stalks. Utricularia reniformis has two types of bladder traps; the genus unlike most other carnivorous genera actively catches its prey." |
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| 4th August 2007 This is the mother-plant from which mine was divided. |
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