Utricularia reniformis
Utricularia reniformis is a large terrestrial bladderwort endemic to the mountains of Brazil, with kidney-shaped leaves up to about 7 cm across and showy lavender flowers striped with gold. It grows in wet highland grasslands, occasionally in the water held by bromeliads, and hunts with tiny bladder traps on a succulent white rhizome under the moss. In cultivation it wants a constantly wet, airy peat-and-sphagnum medium, bright light and mild temperatures with cool nights.
Where it grows wild
Wet grasslands and boggy seepage slopes in the Brazilian mountains, where the rhizome runs through wet moss and peaty soil and the leaves stand in the open among grasses and sedges. Less often it grows as an epiphyte in the water-filled leaf rosettes of bromeliads.
About 750–1,900 m in the southern part of its range and up to 2,500 m further north; a montane plant of cool, misty highlands.
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