Utricularia stygia

Tamlin Dawnstar · Dec 22, 2003

I am expecting some turions of this species recently featured in the CPN December issue. Can anyone tell me a good storage method? Thanks!

BobZ · Dec 22, 2003

I can tell you how NOT to store them. I had a number of U. intermedia turions that I placed in a plastic water bottle this fall and stuck into the frig for the winter. I went to get them last week and they were gone. My wife had tossed them out thinking that something spoiled. MORAL: clearly label your treasures; then tell spouse and kids to leave them alone.

Copper · Jan 3, 2004

OH NO! Bob that's terrible. Did your wife feel bad and get you a little extra for Christmas

Tom · Jan 11, 2004

Chris Fieger, a long time CPer a friend of mine, wrote an article on temperate Utrics storing, and if I remember well, she putted them into a glass jar, perhaps Mason type, and stored them in the fridge until spring... Pretty similar to BobZ technique, and I second him, label your pots! Turion in peat water just look alike an old pickles jar

I am wondering if I haven't read it on dodec's site ... If not, perhaps it was in the old CCPS article from 5 years ago...

Let just hope this technique apply to this species as well.

Tamlin Dawnstar · Jan 11, 2004

Well, if I ever do see them I will try, but I think this was a case of wishful thinking. Darn.

BjørnNorman · Jan 12, 2004

could anybody tell me how Utricularia stygia got it's name? was it a Scandinavian botanist (Linneus?) who named it?

Vic Brown · Jan 12, 2004

Bjorn,

Just check the Carnivorous Plant Database to find out who the author of a plant species is. This is the data for U. stygia :

[b said:
Quote[/b] ]N: +[Utricularia stygia {Thor}]
P: Nord.J.Bot.8:219 (1988)
T: 2,5 km SE Strangsjoe, St.Malm par., Soedermanland, SE, 19. 6. 1986, G.Thor 6581 (S)
CLA: AST-SCR-LEN-UTR-UTR-UTR
L: US (Alaska), CA (Nova Scotia, Mackenzie), GB, DK, NO, SE, FI, DE, AT, CZ, SK
LFR:
1:
Arctic
2:
Atlantic Europe
3:
Central Europe
8:
Northern Europe
15:
Canada incl. Great Lakes

It was described by Goran Thor, a Swede in 1988 in the Nordic Journal of Botany.

Vic

christerb · Jan 12, 2004

Hi Bjorn,

stygia, the latinization of the (River) Styx. You can read for yourself, on the link below. It's in swedish, and there's is also a nice photo of the holotype:

http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/lentibularia/utric/utristy.html

Regards,

Christer

BjørnNorman · Jan 14, 2004

ah... just wondering, cause stygg mean ugly in Norwegian