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Carnivorous Partly documented

Pinguicula emarginata

A small Mexican butterwort of the humid mountains of Veracruz, Puebla and neighbouring states. It is named for its notched petal lobes; the flowers are white with fine violet veins. It grows on moist, mossy rock and banks in oak and cloud forest, keeps similar leaves all year (section Temnoceras) and is one of the easier species to grow and propagate.

Pinguicula emarginata
Photo: dwittkower, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on rock (lithophyte)

Where it grows wild

Wet, mossy rock faces, road cuts and banks in humid oak, pine-oak and cloud forest on the Gulf slope of the Sierra Madre Oriental and Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.

Records span 841-1830 m, median about 1520 m.

Mexico (Veracruz)Mexico (Puebla)Mexico (Hidalgo)

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 2.0 licence, unmodified.