- Sale! Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsDrosera prolifera is a delightful tropical sundew from the rainforests of Queensland, Australia. It is also known as the “Hen and Chicks Sundew” because, in addition to small flowers, the scapes produce tiny new plants! The latin name, prolifera, means “proliferate:” to increase rapidly in numbers or multiply. Even though a single plant may be small, we would highly recommend placing your plant in a pot that’s a good 6 inches wide so that there’s enough room for it to send out scapes and produce new plants which will, in turn, send out scapes and produce new plants. This is a great little sundew for the terrarium. It loves to be humid and moist in a mossy mix.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsNEW! An in-house Brambles Botanicals hybrid, Pinguicula “Professor Plum” is cyclosecta x ‘Faulisi’ #3 (of 11.) We named this plant for its luscious, plum-purple flowers with subtle, darker venation and darkening, almost blue hues and slight ruffles toward the ends of the petals. The spur is also purple while the flower throat is starkly white. The leaves have a subtle but solid midrib and plum-colored, upturned margins. When dormant, however, the leaves can turn almost solidly green. This brand-new hybrid is a sibling of “Little Pink Punk,” “Winky,” and “Doily.” We have only a couple of medium-sized plants available so get yours before they're gone!
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsNEW! An in-house Brambles Botanicals hybrid, Pinguicula “Little Pink Punk” is cyclosecta x ‘Faulisi’ #2 (of 11.) It produces flowers that are almost impossibly, aggressively pink with subtle, darker veins. The leaves are a vibrant, fleshy pink with slightly pointed tips. This is a feisty new hybrid that no one has yet. We have only a couple of medium-sized plants available so get yours before they're gone!
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsNEW! This is a brand-new, in-house Brambles Botanicals hybrid series. We named these plants for their tendency to produce long, arcing scapes that make the flowers look like they’re shooting stars traveling across the sky. “Shooting Star” is Pinguicula emarginata x ‘Faulisi’ so the parentage is both incredible and varied: emarginata has almost sharp-looking, yet dainty little white flowers with purple venation, while the recently- registered ‘Faulisi’ has possibly the largest flower of all butterworts! ‘Faulisi’s flowers are pink and ruffled, so this strange combination of genes has produced some dramatic flowers. We're selling medium-sized plants that are beginning to produce their first flowers. And each and every "Shooting Star" is a genetically unique, seed-grown, one-of-a-kind plant!
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsThis is one of Howard’s favorite butterworts. It has one of the larger flowers that are produced by butterworts, second only to perhaps ‘Faulisi.’ They are a beautiful shade of purple and the petals and overall flower are surprisingly flat-surfaced. The plant itself generally stays a lime green, exhibiting little-to-no pigmentation. These plants (including “Sumidero 1,” which we hope to have available soon) were collected in a national park, Sumidero Canyon, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, possibly by Andreas Wistubas. We have a few medium-sized plants available.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsThe “Yucca Do” complex is a fun one and we’re still working on collecting all of them. There are up to 7 different plants in total (1712 through 1718) that were wild-collected in Mexico in the mid-90’s by Texas-based Yucca Do Nursery and then introduced into the Atlanta Botanic Garden library. The numbers are an abbreviation of a more complicated system. “Yucca Do 1717” is almost certainly a part of the Pinguicula esseriana complex but its exact identification is still uncertain. Under intense light, 1717’s leaves can flush into a pinky bronze color while the thick leaf edges will remain light, creating a unique, contrasting display. It seems that 1717 does need seasonal temperature and/or light fluctuations to flower.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsThe “Yucca Do” complex is a fun one and we’re still working on collecting all of them. There are up to 7 different plants in total (1712 through 1718) that were wild-collected in Mexico in the mid-90’s by Texas-based Yucca Do Nursery and then introduced into the Atlanta Botanic Garden library. The numbers are an abbreviation of a more complicated system. “Yucca Do 1713” is almost certainly a part of the Pinguicula esseriana complex but its exact identification is still uncertain. Under intense light, 1713’s leaves can flush into a pinky bronze color while the thick leaf edges will remain light, creating a unique, contrasting display. It seems that 1713 does need seasonal temperature and/or light fluctuations to flower.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsWe’re selling some small, dormant plants of this wonderful, vigorous hybrid. Both dormant and in active growth, gypsicola x agnata tends to produce beautiful pink to bronzy leaves. (I believe the agnata parent plant is actually agnata “Red Leaf” which would explain why this plant colors up so easily.) The flowers are ultraviolet with round petals and dynamic purple, white, and yellow markings and venation around the flower throat. This is a fantastic beginner butterwort.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsPinguicula ‘Weser’ is a very forgiving, easy growing butterwort that’s a great beginner plant. The cross is Pinguicula ehlersiae x moranensis. The flowers are a vibrant pink with darker purple coloration where the petals meet and a stark, solitary white streak at the throat. The leaves can be an intense pink under high light or larger and green under low light. ‘Weser’ is a classic hybrid that has been around since the 1980s. I believe its name comes from a German river near where the hybridizer lived.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsPinguicula ‘Titan’ is an easy growing, vigorous, and aptly-named butterwort cultivar produced by Cal State Fullerton University’s greenhouse manager Leo Song. The parentage is believed to be Pinguicula agnata x macrophylla. It produces enormous, bronzy leaves and large, round flowers on long scapes. The flowers reportedly have a fragrance but I don’t think I’ve smelled them myself, though sometimes I do forget to stop and smell the flowers. ‘Titan’ will form a tight, subterranean hibernaculum while dormant. The plants we’re offering are currently dormant, medium-sized plants that should get quite large within the next growing season. While they’re dormant they’re perfect to ship and they’ll be more accepting of new growing conditions if they’re able to wake up in them.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsThis gorgeous Mesoamerican butterwort species is a little bit different than many of the other butterworts we have for sale. In the mountains of northern Central America it grows as an epiphyte, so it prefers a mix with moss and/or bark. In our experience, it also prefers to be kept more wet than many other butterworts. If grown in ideal conditions, Pinguicula mesophytica can flower all year. The flowers are vivid with a distance white stripe and round petals; the upper lobes give the flowers the appearance of having Mickey Mouse ears. A great hybridizer, mesophytica is also the pollen-parent of a couple of our favorite crosses, “Peach” and “Pastel.”
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsPinguicula kondoi is a wonderful Mexican butterwort with strikingly veined white flowers and colorful, thick little leaves. There is some confusion and controversy over whether kondoi is synonymous with and should be referred to as reticulata, but for now the debate is still open and kondoi appears to be the most generally accepted name. That is also what was on the tag of the original plant that I received. We’re selling some small plants that are about the size of a quarter.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsThis unique cultivar of Pinguicula laueana produces flowers that are less intensely red and slightly more faded-looking, appearing orange or salmon-colored. There also appears to be more variability between plants, perhaps because “Tangerine” comes from a California Carnivores cross between two different laueanas: red x fuschia, creating a stunning, new, genetically-unique variety of laueana. We’re offering healthy plants that are about 1 inch across while dormant so they should be good sized once they wake up.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsAnother variety of the red-flowered Pingicula laueana, the “CalCarn Red” or “California Carnivores Red” has rounder, slightly ruffled flowers compared to the flatter, more rectangular petals of the typical form of laueana. I would also say the flowers may be ever so slightly less red. I believe Alfred Lau gave California Carnivores this variety directly. We’re offering healthy plants that are about 1 inch across while dormant so they should be good sized once they wake up.
- Sold By: Brambles BotanicalsPinguicula laueana is one of those must-have plants. This is the only butterwort with a truly red flower. The leaves produce varying blushes and dark red venation. It’s also a great hybridizer that produces incredible offspring. Honestly, that this plant even exists and is in cultivation is a wonder to me. Pinguicula laueana was collected by the famous botanist Alfred Lau in 1973 and named after him in 1989. We’re offering healthy, small plants that are about 1 inch across.
