Sarracenia minor

Origin

Introduced in France in 1803, the plant was described by Walter in 1788. The name of species minor comes from Latin and means " small, moindre" , allusion to the small size of the Plant.

The Plante extends from the coastal plain of the south-east of the North Carolina to the peninsula and the southern half of the Florida. One recently found populations in the county of Okeechobee, which makes to Sarracenia minor the member of the Sarracenia which pushes more in the south.

Description

Hardy perennial, terrestrial, rhizomateuse, herbaceous, of which there exist several forms and varieties. Its size varies between 25 and 50 cm.

Sheets: They are radical green, transparent white spots on the upper part of the ballot boxes. The Proie S are trapped by the ballot boxes.

Sarracenia minor is a Sarracénie curious and wide. The strange ballot boxes of Sarracenia minor have almost the appearance of a Moine. The system of capture of the preys is rather single. When the Insecte S are guided to the lip of the mouth by the traces of nectar, they are in a rather dark site because of the cap which overhangs them.

The crawling preys are encouraged to enter the most enlightened parts of the trap, where the sun is shining through the windows. The flying insects are misled and believe that the windows are exits. The crawling preys do not find a catch on the waxy interior of the cap, whereas the flying preys sink in the windows to have amazing surprised.

All fall hopelessly in the tube which narrows and the digestive juices which are in lower part. In a wild state, the sarracenia minor seem very attracting for the Fourmis, although it attracts and eats also a broad range of flying Insectes.

The tubes are smooth with a broad wing on the frontal part. The cover of the ballot box forms one canopée on the mouth. In the upper part of the back of the ballot box several opaque transparent windows are.

The ballot boxes are generally green with a red coloring coppered in the upper part when the plants are cultivated in full sun.

The sarracenia minor are slightly variable on their extent. Certain populations have fine and hard ballot boxes, whereas others can be dodues and soft.

Flowers: They are of intermediate size and they are of a beautiful buttered yellow. Single among Sarracenia, the spring flowers open often simultaneously with the first sheets of the season.

The flowers appear end March with the mid- May. They are odorless. More than one hundred of Seed S by Capsule. Harvest is carried out at the end September beginning October.

Culture

Its culture is identical to the other sarracénias more or less. The Rhizome seems to appreciate to be buried contrary to the others sarracenias. This characteristic also makes it possible to easily multiply it by making small notches on the rhizome.

One then obtains news small plants rather quickly. The new sheets from one season to another always leave a new point of the rhizome and not following the old ones. That undoubtedly explains this facility to make new seedlings starting from a simple notch covered with Sphaigne.

After a few year of culture it appears that she like to have much more water than the majority of the others sarracénias.

Substrate

70% of fair Peat + 10% of Sand + 10% of Vermiculite + 10% of Pearlite.

Temperature

Between 5 and 15 °C the Winter and from 20 to 40 °C the summer. One can install it in external Tourbière, because it resists Température S of -12 °C.

Watering

Maintain the ground wet all the year by means of the presence of a saucer under the pot, reduce and remove in Hiver.

Exposure

The full sun is appropriate to him perfectly.

Parasites and diseases

Plant louse, cochineal, Botrytis

Multiplication

By sowing: Of the seeds which reached me of Australia put nearly one year to germinate. Seeds coldly collected ( September) and sown at once in mini-greenhouse germinate dice the Printemps. A Semis on Coton wet and held with the heat takes approximately a month. Transplantation from culture on cotton requires some precautions in order not to break the rootlets.

Observations

In the major part of its extent the Feuille S border 30 cm in height. The plants of the Okefenokee marshes, in the south of the Georgia, make exception. There, often pushing on floating carpets of Sphaigne, the plants can reach an astonishing size from 90 to 120 cm in height.

Bonds external

http://site.voila.fr/plantes-carnivores/sarraceniaminor.htm
http://www.passiflorale.com/fiche_plante_recherche.php?id=97
http://www.karnivores.com/espece.php?id_plante=31&id_genre=15
http://gelinaud.free.fr/carni/pagdyn.php?lan=fr&gen=Sarracenia#minor
http://dionee.gr.free.fr/bulletin/txt/d_12_c.htm

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