Pinguicula primuliflora Seedling Flowering

[maxposwillo]

While going through my seedlings a noticed an odd looking Pinguicula primuliflora seedling and on closer inspection I realized it was sending up a flower! The seedling is only 1/2 a centimeter in diameter too!

Has anyone else ever had this occur?

I will post an update if the flower opens.

 

[Clue]

My P. primuiflora used to flower all the time, plantlets especially.

 

[Capensis]

Very cool. Only one millimeter? Wow.

 

[maxposwillo]

I dont know what I was thinking when I said 1 millimeter, it is actaully 1/2 a centimeter.

 

[SirKristoff]

Nice max, I've had this happen with a year old flytrap seedling, that died after flowering sadly lol. I gotta see that if it opens

 

[tommyr]

For some reason I can't grow these. I had 4 earlier this year but all of them died. Strange. I grow Moranensis and Agnata just fine but these seem "tricky"!

 

[jimscott]

Max: Seedling... as in from seeds... as opposed to a plantlet formed from a leaf?

Tommy: This species kinda enigmatic, not unlike D. adelae, even though you have a great handle on the sundew.

 

[maxposwillo]

Jim - they are from seed, I think a flower on one of my plants was pollinated and the seed got spread around my collection because I have a bunch of these little guys popping up in neighbooring pots, and P. primuliflora is the only temperate ping I grow so I dont know what elsle it could be.

 

[BobZ]

Are you sure this isn't a P. lusitanica hitchhiker from somewhere? Just asking.

 

[SirKristoff]

Has it even bloomed yet Max?!?!?
i must see this!!!
i imagine it will bloom a little faster than an adult since the flower isnt going to be near as big lol?
anticipation!

 

[petmantis]

Wooooow! 5mm across!!! That is insane! Please post more pics as it develops

 

[jimscott]

I'm sure it's possible from seed, just not typical, from most of us who are getting our first plants from a "Lowes Cube Of Death". I can personally vouch for P. lusitanica spreading all over the place - in my D. capillaris and P. gypsicola, for instance. Those are as bad a U. subulata!

 

[maxposwillo]

Well, it looks like flowering was to much for the little guy, unforunatly it died. It probably didnt have enough energy to support a flower as its only a seedling.

Hey Bob,

There is a chance it may be P. lusitanica, Brian Barnes also suggested that it could be P. pumila, I guess we will have to wait till the others grow up.