Red and Bronze flavas, Okaloosa Co. FL
Aug 11, 2015 0:44:48 GMT -5
Jonathan Mejia, meizzwang, and 13 more like this
Post by calen on Aug 11, 2015 0:44:48 GMT -5
Yet another surprising feature of the incredibly diverse bogs in Okaloosa Co. were the "bronze" flavas. These plants are INCREDIBLE! They ranged from almost-atropurpurea to lightly copper-blushed clones and had us scratching our heads and taking lots of pictures. Were these var. cuprea? In the end, we decided they are something different. Long after cuprea hoods would have faded, these clones were fully infused with stunning shades of red, orange, and carmel. Nor could we call them var. atropurpurea since the plants were not fully red, often with only a light blush to the tube (although they only occurred alongside atropurps). Not sure, but our guess is that these plants are "hybrids" of rugelii and atropurpurea. Complex genetics and back crossing have yielded a completely smooth spectrum of clones from barely blushed plants all the way through to the blackest atro. Cool! Before seeing them I never would have imagined that crossing atros to green plants could lead to "dilution" like this, or that the results would be so beautiful (I am borrowing the name from this cultivated plant, also originally from Okaloosa Co: sarracenia.proboards.com/thread/222/flava-bronze-pic-update-22). This post will begin with the darkest red flavas, and progress down through lighter and lighter plants to show the smooth intergradation between atropurpurea and "bronze."
Can you believe this!?
Another shot of the same clone - note the throat blotch under all that red:
A lot of the atros lid appendages remained yellow - super nifty
Trey spotted this one: the edge of this lid was curled under, keeping it shaded and revealing that the pitcher started life as an "ornata" or "rubricorpora":
Green lynx spider - um, I think they are better adapted to hunting on green flavas
Monster lids on some of these clones
Getting a little lighter now - notice how the tube isn't as saturated:
Just a little bit lighter still:
Close up of a trap, starting to see the intergrade:
Getting bronzier (foreground clone) - note the red lid and greenish tube:
This clone really knocked our socks off / made us pee a little:
Same plant:
Same clone from above:
Yet another clone:
Look at THIS! Wow. Out of context (i.e. in cultivation) one would no doubt call this an amazing cuprea clone. These pitchers are a couple months old though - opposite from var. cuprea the color seems to intensify with age.
A very pretty clone that almost looks like a Carolina atropurp:
Now getting into some very lightly blushed bronze clones. Note how these plants are often not veined much at all - these genetics seem to be de-coupled from var. ornata:
This plant looks for all the world like a Carolinas cuprea:
Same clone:
As does this one:
Wish I'd gotten a better close up of this very delicately colored clone:
Lastly, a medley of color forms. Note the etxtremely dark red plant at left-center, the single pitcher of "bronze" just to the right and in front of it, and the lighter but still solid red plant on the far right side of the pic. No two alike out there.
Can you believe this!?
Another shot of the same clone - note the throat blotch under all that red:
A lot of the atros lid appendages remained yellow - super nifty
Trey spotted this one: the edge of this lid was curled under, keeping it shaded and revealing that the pitcher started life as an "ornata" or "rubricorpora":
Green lynx spider - um, I think they are better adapted to hunting on green flavas
Monster lids on some of these clones
Getting a little lighter now - notice how the tube isn't as saturated:
Just a little bit lighter still:
Close up of a trap, starting to see the intergrade:
Getting bronzier (foreground clone) - note the red lid and greenish tube:
This clone really knocked our socks off / made us pee a little:
Same plant:
Same clone from above:
Yet another clone:
Look at THIS! Wow. Out of context (i.e. in cultivation) one would no doubt call this an amazing cuprea clone. These pitchers are a couple months old though - opposite from var. cuprea the color seems to intensify with age.
A very pretty clone that almost looks like a Carolina atropurp:
Now getting into some very lightly blushed bronze clones. Note how these plants are often not veined much at all - these genetics seem to be de-coupled from var. ornata:
This plant looks for all the world like a Carolinas cuprea:
Same clone:
As does this one:
Wish I'd gotten a better close up of this very delicately colored clone:
Lastly, a medley of color forms. Note the etxtremely dark red plant at left-center, the single pitcher of "bronze" just to the right and in front of it, and the lighter but still solid red plant on the far right side of the pic. No two alike out there.