Pinguicula or Butterwort

[Tucson Grower]

Here are a few of another group of insectivorous plants, most of this group, the orchid flowered butterworts are from the higher elevations in tropical Mexico. So they get tropical daylength, a warm Summer, but a cooler and drier Winter. Macmex knows much more about that, than I do. I've never actually been there.

I have yet to locate my close-up cameo pics, but I will. Meanwhile here are some young propagules, of various ones, growing in community trays.

                              

I grow these, because they're uncommon, challenging, and absolutely gorgeous.

[Tucson Grower]

Here are a few, more mature plants. I'll add flowers, as soon as I locate them.

The first one is Pinguicula gypsicola, then Pinguicula emarginata, and finally, Pinguicula esseriana.

They're all my favorites -- it's hard to have just one favorite.

[Tucson Grower]

And here are a few more --
Pinguicula gigantea, Pinguicula 'Sethos' and Pinguicula 'Titan'.

[Tucson Grower]

And here is one more, showing some leaf color variation for Pinguicula rectifolia:

[Tucson Grower]

Nov 28, 2021 22:28:22 GMT -6 @bon said:

Some of these are just surreal in their 😍😍 beauty.

And this is just the foliage, wait until I find my cache of flower pics. Some of them are kinda plain, but many of them are quite showy. Since I am a propagating fool, in a short while I'd turn one plant into dozens or hundreds, space permitting. This allowed me to discover, what I hadn't found in any of the literature concerning this genus; that the flowers are fragrant. When I was just growing one or two plants of any particular species, there was never enough "fragrance" to notice, but when 20 or more of the same species were blooming, en mass, the fragrances were very noticeable, and pleasant.