As promised, a better photo exploration of Celia. Let me show you why I occasionally give her a little kiss. She is an open pollinated hybrid, mostly veinless, though her smaller (older) pitchers are developing some veins as they deepen to the hues of autumn leaves. The mostly green leaves are ones that developed during periods of poor lighting, but the spring green has a nice golden tone that is still lovely. 1/2
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@tippitiwichet She’s beautiful!
@Carolyn_haack Thank you, she is my precious.
oh, she's immaculate--! i love all the different colors mixing as solids. hood shape points to some purpurea in the ancestry probably
@fernfren I am 100% going to self pollinate her to see what her parentage is, I fully expect purpurea. I will then try buying varieties of what I suspect the parent plants are, cross pollinate them, and see what happens in their seeds. It will take a few years. I'm okay with slow, long term projects.
@fernfren Also, I'm going to admit it. When I'm feeling down sometimes I like to search images of veinless pitcher plants and look at the results. Among the purple pitcher plants, Ghost is beautiful, but the others look bland enough to make me feel smug.
2/2 She was found growing in a gallon of live red/purple sphagnum moss, which also deepens in strong light. Mine is still green. Most of it died during the various setbacks of the last couple of years, but a few growing crowns will hopefully establish with my improved setup. The quartz marks a special clump of moss, a pinch of haircap moss from Walden pond.