Help with ping id

[NickHubbell]

I have not been able to find enough information to id this ping. It was purchased on 2/24/2001. It was about 2 inches in diameter. Today it is just over 4 inches in diameter. I has produced two new offshoots since purchase. It does not produce plantlets on the leaves. The photo of the plant below is of one of the offshoots. Of the 2 plants originally purchased, there are now 5. Each is in bloom with several flower stalks with a single white flower.

I have not had any rotting problems except when I put ants on the leaves. The plant does well on a diet of gnats.

The flower is white. But the next photo makes it appear somewhat purple. This was due to poor lighting at the time the photo was taken.

I do have several guesses of my own, but each time I try to ID the plant, something doesn't fit.

Thanks.

[edited 3/7/2003]

 

[Khai]

Its looks to me like an album form of P. primuliflora.
But you say it doesnt produce plantlets so that wouldnt fit, perhaps yours just has a diminished ability to do so.

 

[carnivorous23]

It seems like it could be ionantha.

 

[CP2k]

Looks like P.ionantha, another warm-temperate ping that is found in its natural habitat growing with P.primuliflora.

 

[NickHubbell]

I have been thinking it is ionantha. I first thought it was primuliflora, but the flower color does not support that.

 

[Kate]

Nick,

Is the pic of the rosette acurate as to colour? The slight purple tinging toward the middle, is that really there, lighting or is my monitor off on colour again?

 

[Joseph Clemens]

My guess is that the colors showing in the photo of the plant is just a trick of the lighting and that the plant is 100% all green.

 

[NickHubbell]

The plant is 100% green.

 

[Kate]

Okay that's kind of what I thought, wanted to check though.

You're right though Nick, when I saw the one pic of the flower (the pinkish one) the other day I thought maybe primulaflora... Now, I'm 98% sure it's not.... Not really any help am I? lol

 

[Joseph Clemens]

My guess is from observation of the vegetative parts of the plant, though those can fool ya. The overall shape of the plant, like a multipointed star, and the pointy shape of the leaves themselves are strikingly reminiscent of Pinguicula planifolia but could even be Pinguicula ionantha.

 

[CP2k]

Most of the warm-temperate pings(lutea, ionantha, caerulea, planifolia, and to a less certain extent, primuliflora) look alike when they are not in flower. Primuliflora can be easy to spot in a collection by the number of plantlets it produces. All of the planifolia I have seen are colored red/green or a deep red(lots of sun). I have never heard of or seen an alba form of planifolia, although it could exist. Of all the photos of ionantha I have seen, the plants have green/light green/yellowish rosettes like lutea and caerulea.

 

[Kate]

I ran across these earlier, thought they might help.

http://pinguicula.cool.ne.jp/Pinguicula/ionantha.html

http://www.c-able.ne.jp/~osada/Pinguicula_index_frame.htm

http://kcps.net/img/ping10.jpg

 

[NickHubbell]

Here are some better photos of the flowers.

The last photo shows some color on the lower petal. This is a stain on the flower.

 

[Joseph Clemens]

Sure looks like Pinguicula ionantha. Pinguicula ionantha is the only ping to stick out its beard just like that.

 

[gardenofeden]

yup, looks like my ionantha!

 

[Khai]

Its fun to see the progression over time in your pictures, very well documented!