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RED THROATED YELLOW PITCHER PLANT GENUS SARRACENIA FLAVA VAR. RUGELII
Sarracenia flava is a tall, slender trumpet pitcher that can easily be more than a meter tall. In the wild, this plant is found along the southeastern coastal plain of the USA, starting in Alabama, to Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and a few sites in Virginia. It is most threatened by habitat destruction.

Sarracenia flava var. rugelii is one of a number of recognised varieties. Top of pitcher more widely expanded and with larger lid than other varieties, prominent large deep red to purple pigment area in pitcher throat that is often fractured with smaller satellite areas but with no significant venation. This is the common and predominant variety in southern Georgia and northwestern Florida.

In Sarracenia flava forms the mouth of the pitcher is circled by a conspicuous, outward-rolled lip. This lip usually dips at the front, as if it were a pouring spout. The column that attaches the back of the pitcher to the lid is tall, and recurved back at the edges. The lid is usually very large and either flat or flaring upwards at the margins. The front of the lid has a little tendril-like tip that twiddles out in the air.

Sarracenia flava flowers are large, with long and straplike dangling yellow petals. They are famous for having a strong, cat-pee smell. Yum yum! If you bring a warm plant that has been growing in full sun and is bearing many flowers indoors, you can stink up an entire room.

In cultivation, Sarracenia flava seems to put all its growing efforts into a few pitchers at the beginning of the year. After these pitchers are made, few further pitchers are produced. During the winter, Sarracenia flava produces tall sword-shaped leaves lacking pitchers, called phyllodia. These allow the plant to photosynthesize all winter, during which there are fewer bugs to hunt.

The tried and true way of germinating Sarracenia seed is to cold stratify the seed for 4 weeks. Storing the seed dry in the refrigerator isn't stratification. Stratification is storing the seed in a cold and damp environment usually with natural materials that may aid the process of convincing the seed it is time to start growing. The easiest method is to refrigerate seeds in a small plastic bag with a few strands of finely chopped sphagnum moss dampened with purified water. Live sphagnum is the best choice. The moss should be wet enough so that if you squeeze it you will see water but there shouldn't be any free water in the bag. If you don't have live or dried sphagnum moss and must use peatmoss, get it very wet then squeeze it to remove most of the water and make sure there is plenty of air in the plastic bag. The seeds need air. The seeds could die if the peatmoss is too wet. You may want to soak seed for a day before you stratify them. Put the seeds in a small dish of purified water and a tiny touch of dish detergent.

This auction is for 15 fresh seed. Item shipped by ordinary mail upon receipt of clear funds. Postage cost of 60 cents. ***Save 50% postage & handling on additional lots that are combined for shipment.

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