Utricularia sandersonii "blue" flower

It looks like my U. sandersonii from Natch Greyes beat out my U. livida for the privilege of bearing my first (proper) terrestrial Utric flower.

I had to take the pot out of its glass bowl for this shot. Such a tiny flower.

It's a tiny little flower, but is super cute up close.

This flower is looking bashful for its beauty shot.

As you can see, it's not quite mature yet – the distinctive "bunny ears" on top haven't unfolded yet.

Check out that awesome spur!

It does have this great spur though. Utrics really do have elaborate, orchid-like flowers, just in miniature! At least the terrestrials are miniature.

Just a couple weeks behind, but my U. livida is getting ready for what looks like the first of (hopefully) many mass flowerings.

I'm expecting a big show of blooms any time now.

I'm really excited for the flowers to start popping open – so far I count 6 scapes. Gonna be really cute!

My Drosera 'Marston Dragon' is also blooming rather impressively.

I like how this plant supports multiple blooms at once.

It's too bad that the buds are all right at the height of the lights, so I don't get to see them as often as I like. It's still quite cute.

The second flower has also opened on my Pinguicula gigantea.

The Ping flower stalks flex up and down over the course of the day. I wish I could film it.

Pretty sure these are the cheeriest blooms in my whole collection. I believe one can self-pollinate P. gigantea, and if so I should get on that. This is such a cute little butterwort.


I'll keep the blog updated with any new Utric flowers.