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D. intermedia "Carolina Giant" by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. intermedia "Carolina Giant" apomixis by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. spatulata "Beenak, Victoria AU" by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. neocaledonica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. filiformis by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. anglica "Germany" by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. capillaris 'Hal Scott, FL" by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. intermedia Easton, MA by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. finlaysoniana by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. rotundifolia by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. 'Dreamsicle' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. 'Dreamsicle' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. binata Coromandel NZ by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. dichotoma by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. multifida by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. binata "typical" by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. binata Waihohonu Desert Rd. NZ by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. 'Marston Dragon' by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. burmannii? by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
 
[emoji106] You have some really, really nice sundews. You make hybrids and regular sundews I dont like look really nice and beautiful!

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hcarlton said:
D. linearis by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
D. ultramafica by Hawken Carlton, on Flickr
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I hope D. linearis is growing well for you. I imagine you are dreaming of artificially recreating D. anglica. I succeeded in this but was unable to get it to flower, so I lost interest in the plant and gave it away. Wish now I had instead used the easy tropical growing rotundifolia from Kagoshima Japan which I got later. If you can do this, I can make it fertile with Colchicine.

Your brevifolia x spatulata on your growlist can be made a fertile hexaploid which would be interfertile with tokaiensis.
~Ivan aka Dr. FrankenSnyder
 
While recreation of natural hybrids is somewhat of interest (mostly if I don't own the hybrid yet), I don't think I can count crossing linearis and rotundifolia as actually recreating anglica myself per se; that species has been self-supporting and separate from the parents for thousands of years at least. The ancestral hybrid D. x kihlmannii is a different story. Plus, if I even get linearis to adulthood (and they're still less than 1/2" across despite all the time they've had to grow so far), I'd much rather attempt if the opportunity arises crosses with species like filiformis, capensis, if it's possible (and theoretically it should be) things like affinis or madagascariensis, etc.
Also, while some fertile hybrids are interesting, I personally would much rather retain most of mine as sterile; lineage can't be crossed back and confused with anything later on and my crosses like brevifolia x tokaiensis (brevi x spat I can't say for certain is an actual success yet; still very, very young) are more than prolific enough as they are.
 
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