NL - Labrador

Eric

Carnivore
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Now, this is an extreme form of purpurea. In a way it has got the look of the stereotype of what is generallly regarded as ssp.purpurea: Long, narrow and very smooth pitchers with very small lids that you can't easily bend together so they would touch. Unlike other northern purpurea this plant frequently divides so it gets a stocky apperance after a while. Most purpurea have only a single crown, unless they are very well fed.
This plant is also really small: The largest pitcher of my flowering plant measured 110 mm in length being 24 mm wide. So what would be normal or large?
I recently cut a pitcher of an AF plant from PEI so I took this one to compare it with: It measured 190 mm in length being 42 mm wide.
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When filling the pitchers with water up to the rim the pitcher of the plant from LB would hold 18 ml while the one from PEI could be filled with 66 ml of water. So the plant from LB is kind of a dwarf, but I don't think this is generally true for plants from there. I've seen site images where plants look pretty much like other purpureas from NE Canada. Unfortunately, I can't be sure where exactly this plant came from. I received it as a division from a grower in England who grew if from seed that he bought from an internet trader who got the seed from another person in Canada. This leaves some doubt about how trustworthy the location info may be. Anyway it is an interesting plant.
 
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