Utricularia calycifida
A terrestrial bladderwort from the Guiana Shield of northern South America, grown for its unusually large, rounded leaves, often red-veined, and its lilac-pink flowers with a yellow palate. It is popular with carnivorous plant growers, and several selected clones carry Lovecraft-inspired names such as 'Lavinia Whateley' and 'Asenath Waite'. It wants constantly wet, open peaty media, bright filtered light and warm, humid conditions.
Where it grows wild
It grows on wet, mossy ground, stream banks and seepages, often among moss and other low vegetation in savanna edges and open forest on the sandstone of the Guiana Shield. The traps sit in the saturated substrate.
Recorded from 50 to 2,255 m, with a median of 500 m (41 records), so it ranges from lowland sandy areas up to tepui slopes.
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