Utricularia endresii
A medium-sized epiphytic bladderwort from wet forests of Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador, first described by Reichenbach in 1874 as a 'Lentibulariaceous orchid' and once grown in orchid houses. It lives in moss on trunks, wet banks and road cuts, catching tiny prey with bladders in the moss while showy flowers rise above. Grow it like a humid, intermediate orchid: bright shade, a moist but airy moss medium and soft water.
Where it grows wild
Wet forest, where it grows in moss cushions on tree trunks and branches and on mossy banks, rock walls and road cuts; one record describes it 'growing on a road cut in a bed of sphagnum moss'. Its traps work in the wet moss around the plant.
Costa Rican herbarium records span about 100 m (Osa Peninsula lowlands) to 1,400 m, and observations reach higher montane forest in Tarrazú and on the Ecuadorian Andean slopes; the bulk of sites seem to be around 1,000–1,500 m.
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