Who's that Sar?

[purple_monkfi]

I picked this little guy up last year from one of the local garden centers. It was looking very miserable, tiny, sick and they let me have it for £1 which was a score.
Anyway, 9 months or so on and it's recently been transferred from the first pot I put it into to this pot which is about 10x bigger and it already is spreading to fill it.

I'm told it's likely a tissue culture, hence why it grows in such a tangled mess, but i've never figured out precisely what species of sar it is.

It's only recently started flushing red which adds an extra "huh..." into the mix.

The pitcher shape is heavily hooded and slightly downcast and the pitchers have these bright white spots and red veining.

My husband named it "vermicelli" because when I fight brought it home he said that's what it looked like (lots of tiny skinny noodles lol) but it's significantly bigger now.

It seems happy, it's just um... very prolific with pitchers.

 

[adnedarn]

Impossible to say for sure, if you're going to add a name make sure to put (?) on it so it's known it is a guess... But it looks very similar to S. 'Scarlet Belle' or x wrigleyana (same cross as 'Scarlet Belle' but not the cultivar) to me.

 

[purple_monkfi]

Impossible to say for sure, if you're going to add a name make sure to put (?) on it so it's known it is a guess... But it looks very similar to S. 'Scarlet Belle' or x wrigleyana (same cross as 'Scarlet Belle' but not the cultivar) to me.

Wrigleana was my guess when i was first researching it, so I think you might be onto something there with this being one of those crosses.
It makes sense to be a named hybrid though, because why would you tissue culture any ol' plant?

 

[adnedarn]

Because they like it. I've paid to TC a number of plants that are random crosses and not named cultivars because I like them. But yes, mass propagation would likely be a named cultivar.

 

[hcarlton]

Garden center plant is going to be 'Scarlet Belle' (which I need to replace...). Other option would be 'Dixie Lace' but that would have already begun developing more distinctive yellow-and-red traps with less white areolation and more sharply pointed hood tip.