a few Heliamphora flowers

[Av8tor1]

some new, some old

H. pulcella's pitchers are not their only hirsute feature

Thanks for looking,
Av

 

[Devon]

nice flowers! You must have a good set up to get all those flowers!

 

[F R e N c H 3 z]

Wow, amazing colors as always Butch. Very impressive. Can't wait to expand my collection and setup so I add this wonderful species!

 

[Ngantnier]

Awesome!

 

[adnedarn]

Beautiful plants, flowers, and pictures! Great work, LOVIN IT!
Andrew

 

[kgrudz]

those plants are stunning

 

[Hermopolis]

Great photos! Your photography and plants are, as always, stunning!

-Hermes.

 

[Jayson16]

Great work as always Av, your an inspiration to us all. Thank you for sharing

 

[jimscott]

Incredibly beautiful!

 

[jrod]

Interesting hairy scape on the pulchella! My only blooming plants have so far shown bare scapes. They're blooming at about 2" tall with only a few adult pitchers, so maybe they just haven't hit puberty yet haha

 

[Av8tor1]

Thanks for the very kind words all,

jrod, I think its one of the defining characteristics of H. pulcella, here is a quote from A. Fleischmann after an expedition to the tepuis in 2009

"...The nodding flowers of H. pulchella consist of four (rarely five) tepals. The inflorescence scape and pedicel are always densely pubescent. This is another good character to distinguish it from H. minor (which has a glabrous scape, just the pedicels are pubescent, too)..."

Av

But the heli waters are so muddy IMHO

 

[drosera5150]

Looking good, Av!

Have you been crossing any of those flowers?

It would be fascinating to see if H. 'Tequila' would produce fertile seed, with the "Heli-waters" as muddy as they seem...

Brian.

 

[Av8tor1]

Im going to try self'ing a tequila, my dark red tequila is also currently in bloom
and I'd like to try pulcella x tequila, or tequila x pulcella

Av