Crazy Lil Ping

[dvg]

The developing flowers showing a bit more growth,

emerging from their onion-like bulbs.

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[dvg]

This bulb is content to just shoot a single flower skyward,

while this one, maybe more ambitious, has not only fired its first flower up,

but has another in the chamber, locked and loaded.

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[roxorboxor]

These are weird but really cool. Are the onion bulbs unique to this species?

 

[hcarlton]

No, species like medusina and a couple others do it also.

 

[jeff 2]

Bonjour

very very nice DVG

onion and hibernaculae is not the same thing , the first and the "winter" roset ( sometimes a hibernaculae) for the dry season in mexican country , the second for the winter , cold season for some temperate pinguicula.

heterophylla-sp tonala-medusinae have this onion.

jeff

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[dvg]

Thanks you Jeff 2.

Here is a pic of the opened flower.

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[dvg]

Another update of the plants in flower.

The smaller plant is still not sending up any leaves yet, but i have managed to get pollen onto both flower's pollen flaps.

A flower about to open and an unlucky spider that happened upon the sticky flower stalk next to it.

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[dvg]

The plant on the left is starting to roll out the first of the long narrow slender type leaves that it is known for.

That will probably signal an end to flowering for this bulb/plant, this go-round.

The plant on the right is sending up its second flower while a pollinated seedpod hovers above it.

Meanwhile up above, another flower opens next to another pollinated seedpod - fingers crossed,

really hoping for some viable seed.

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[dvg]

A bit of an update with these two - the plant at bottom left is opening its second flower with another one on the way, but that should be the last one for it this season.

The plant at right is opening its third and last flower while two seed capsules to the right of it ripen off - should know in a day or two if there is any seed in the ripest one.


A closer look at the top of this opening flower, just a few hours away from it being fully open.

A look at the underneath side of this same flower.

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[corky]

love this thread,interesting plants indeed,thanks for sharing DVG

 

[dvg]

Thanks Corky,

An unfurling leaf rolls out its tip in a sideways corkscrew spiral.

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[jrmc114064]

That is beautiful dvg!

 

[dvg]

A very tiny P. heterophylla seedling peeks out from a surrounding landscape of coarse sand.

This seedling is just over a week old.

The two bulbs each produced 3 flowers apiece this year and i pollinated all 6 flowers, collected seed from 4 of the flowers, but was only able to germinate about a dozen or so seeds from just one of those seed capsules.

So i snapped pics last night, then fed the seedlings, so hopefully in a few weeks they will have grown some more.



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[corky]

and you have seeds germinating,i missed the update but a dozen seeds to grow is pretty good i think

 

[Lil Stinkpot]

I just saw this. These are really neat plants.

I have had some success with P. medusina, perhaps it is time for me to try P. heterophylla.


Nice job!

 

[dvg]

Thanks Corky and Lil Stinkpot.

These two have now gone into their dormant habit.

But the leaf pullings i took last year, from the two plants shown above, have mostly reawakened from their blissful mexi-ping slumber.

dvg

 

[jeff 2]

Bonjour

magnificent result of culture,continuous on other species.

jeff

 

[Devon]

Very neat!

I really like this picture. . .

An unfurling leaf rolls out its tip in a sideways corkscrew spiral.

dvg

 

[Api]

What soil mix do you use for all of your Mexican pings?

 

[BioZest]

Very neat!

I really like this picture. . .

it's a twirl of death! to flies!