Utricularia jamesoniana
A small epiphytic bladderwort that grows in moss on tree trunks in cloud forest and wet forest from southern Mexico through Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America to Bolivia and Brazil. It has small tubers and obovate leaves, and produces white flowers, sometimes tinged lilac, with a long, upcurved spur throughout the year. Grow it in live sphagnum in a humid, airy, cool-to-intermediate enclosure.
Where it grows wild
Mossy tree trunks and branches in montane cloud forest and in wet lowland forest, where the stolons and traps run through permanently damp moss and the plant is shaded by the canopy.
From near sea level to about 2500 m; the Colombian plant catalogue gives 10 to 2570 m, and GBIF records with elevations cluster around 1700 m.
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