Giardino Carnivoro
Sarracenia leucophylla f. viridescens
Sarracenia leucophylla f. viridescens
This leucophylla lacks the red pigment, even in winter you will see the plant turn yellow instead of purple. The flower petals are white instead of red like other leucophyllas.
Sarracenia leucophylla is a carnivorous plant of the Sarracenia genus that lives in moist meadows of the southeastern United States, namely Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Missouri.
It produces slender and bulbous pitchers only in the upper part. Their color is white often adorned with green, purple veins or sometimes they are absent as in the alba varieties.
In spring, leucophylla produces modest-sized pitchers, often narrow and slender, which barely support themselves. They can also produce phyllodia, again in spring, which are flat, unopened leaves in the characteristic tubular shape. They give their best from September onwards, when they produce truly majestic pitchers from the rhizome, which are very colorful compared to the skinny, faded spring pitchers.
Furthermore, the nectar of Leucophylla is the best I have ever observed in the Sarracenia genus, it really attracts many autumn insects, including stink bugs.
The flower of Sarracenia leucophylla is very tall and has large red petals. Some Sarracenia leucophylla have introgressions with Sarracenia alata and the flower can have a white, greenish color.
Growing Tips
Growing Tips
The sarracenia catches many flies, wasps, bedbugs and other large insects
Soil: Blonde acid sphagnum peat with perlite
IN SUMMER: Keep the plant exposed to the sun for many hours a day, which is essential for it to grow healthy and colourful. It does not suffer from the summer heat if the water level in the saucer is kept high.
It should never be fertilized.
IN WINTER Keep the plant outside in a sunny and wind-protected position. Just avoid prolonged frosts. You can cut dry and damaged leaves at the base. In spring it will have beautiful flowering and lots of new leaves.
To have even higher traps you can cut the flower as soon as it appears at 5 cm in height. The peat must be completely changed every two or three years.
Watering
Watering
The best water is rain or distilled or reverse osmosis.
It must be free of limestone residues and very tender and acidic.
Sarracenia loves a high water level in the saucer.
The traps should not be filled with water.
In summer the ideal level is constant up to half the vase.
In winter, a constant cm or two will be enough.
It is not necessary to vaporize the plant but in the height of summer it can be refreshed with evening rain, always with low-calcareous water.
