S. flava var. ornata clone#123 Liberty Co, FL
Apr 29, 2019 18:07:49 GMT -5
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Post by meizzwang on Apr 29, 2019 18:07:49 GMT -5
Most of the Sarracenia geex here on the forum know that S. flava var. ornata doesn't breed true, and if you didn't know that, well, hopefully G.I. Joe has taught you an important lesson: KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE! Now you're probably thinking (if you're on the west coast of the US at least) "dude, Mike Wang, your posts are getting weirder and weirder... and why do you keep making references to the 1990's?", and to that I say thank you for the compliment, and it's because I'm getting old, SON! (or daughter). Nevermind that I'm having conversations with myself publicly.....
Ahem, while I shake off that awkward start to this conversation, let's talk a little more about ornatas: they come from "watered down" color forms! In this case, it's a watered-down flava rubricorpora that probably crossed with another variety like flava rugelii. If we look at flava ornata from a global point of view, they're not very stable (ie.very few breed true), unless you go to Walton Co, FL. Over there, large populations of color forms have interbred with rugelii and back-crossed relentlessly, so you have watered down rubricorporas, rugeliis, and stunning ornatas! I'm sure there's some other ornata populations that breed true, but of the dozen or so of locality-ornatas that I've experimented with, they overall don't breed true.
In Liberty Co, FL, you have rubricorporas that are harder to color up, rubricorporas that are easy to color up, arguably atropurpureas, some mixed color forms in between, flava rugelii, and the occasional flava ornata like the one pictured below! I believe if we were in Egypt and you watered down your beer (WAAAAAY back in the day), they'd drown you in the Nile, but today, if you water down a rubricorpora and get a beautiful ornata like the one below, I think you'd probably get a friendly pat on the back for that...at bare minimum!
Here's S. flava var. ornata clone#123 Liberty Co, FL, photos taken 4/28/19. This was the only ornata from this specific batch that was selected for propagation:
Ahem, while I shake off that awkward start to this conversation, let's talk a little more about ornatas: they come from "watered down" color forms! In this case, it's a watered-down flava rubricorpora that probably crossed with another variety like flava rugelii. If we look at flava ornata from a global point of view, they're not very stable (ie.very few breed true), unless you go to Walton Co, FL. Over there, large populations of color forms have interbred with rugelii and back-crossed relentlessly, so you have watered down rubricorporas, rugeliis, and stunning ornatas! I'm sure there's some other ornata populations that breed true, but of the dozen or so of locality-ornatas that I've experimented with, they overall don't breed true.
In Liberty Co, FL, you have rubricorporas that are harder to color up, rubricorporas that are easy to color up, arguably atropurpureas, some mixed color forms in between, flava rugelii, and the occasional flava ornata like the one pictured below! I believe if we were in Egypt and you watered down your beer (WAAAAAY back in the day), they'd drown you in the Nile, but today, if you water down a rubricorpora and get a beautiful ornata like the one below, I think you'd probably get a friendly pat on the back for that...at bare minimum!
Here's S. flava var. ornata clone#123 Liberty Co, FL, photos taken 4/28/19. This was the only ornata from this specific batch that was selected for propagation: