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Mitosis.....pinguicula style...say wha?

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SirKristoff

SirKristoff

Yeah this is pretty much a new one for me....
my P. ehlersiae has always been somewhat of a strange grower....then it started to flower finally, after a year and a half of owning it...this one came from Xvart some odd time ago when he gave me a good number of pings....
Well xvart, your plant is weird. enough said lol.
Its decided, from atleast what it looks like its doing, to split itself straight down the center....
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It's simply dividing, I don't see anything extremely weird about it. At least you have two plants now. :)

The real odd thing is... I thought that ehlersiae had a very compact rosette like
P. jaumavensis or P. esseriana (I really can't tell the three apart). Yours has longer, more spaced out leaves. However, the flower morphology matches. Hmmmm..
 
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the plant was on a windowsill a couple weeks ago after i moved it in from the greenhouse. it did, at one point have that compact rosette going...
now that its back under a couple CFLs, its flowering, and hopefully will resume its compact growth.
ive never had one of my pings split down the center, so its weird for me ;)
 
In any case, great plant (love your vent x angasanensis as well!). What soil are you using for the ping?
 
Whoa... the color on that P. agnata is... ...amazing! :0o:
 
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Last year my P. 'John Rizzi' split into five plants as it entered winter growth and started flowering. It's growing like a geodesic dome now with rosettes forming the polygons, if that makes any sense. A leaf pulling division of this cultivar is now doing the same as the light levels decrease.
 
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This is actually quite common at least in my pings and seems to correspond with when they are flowering. So far these plants have divided:

P. emarginata, P. 'Pirouette', P. agnata.
 
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Last year my P. 'John Rizzi' split into five plants as it entered winter growth and started flowering. It's growing like a geodesic dome now with rosettes forming the polygons, if that makes any sense. A leaf pulling division of this cultivar is now doing the same as the light levels decrease.
 
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This is actually quite common at least in my pings and seems to correspond with when they are flowering. So far these plants have divided:

P. emarginata, P. 'Pirouette', P. agnata.
 
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Every time my pings flower, they also split at the same time. (p. weser, moranensis, moranensis giant)

Off topic, but my d. alicia splits occasionally when it flowers, but i want a tall uniform tube, so i just pluck out the new growth and it resumes back to one growth point. I don't think this would be applicable or even worth it for pings though, just thought i'd throw that in...
 
i assume he used a word that was not as tolerated as 'amazing' is tolerated.

from wiki:
Nomenclature refers to either a list of names and/or terms, or to the system of principles, procedures and terms related to naming - which is the assigning of a word or phrase to a particular object or property.
 
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