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Utricularia longifolia

A large perennial bladderwort endemic to eastern Brazil, with long strap-shaped leaves and lilac flowers. It grows on wet rocks and in seepy, marshy spots in the mountains of Espírito Santo and the Chapada Diamantina in Bahia, often near waterfalls, and is one of the easier large terrestrial Utricularia to grow.

Utricularia longifolia
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Denis Barthel assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, 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 Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on rock (lithophyte)

Where it grows wild

Grows on wet rock faces, inselbergs and marshy rocky ground kept wet by seepage or waterfall spray, in montane Atlantic forest and the campo rupestre of Bahia.

Records run from low elevations up to about 1450 m (Castelo, Espírito Santo); the Bahian sites in the Chapada Diamantina lie roughly between 900 and 1400 m.

Brazil

🔒 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 3.0 licence, unmodified.