Pinguicula x “Antares” BARE ROOT
If you love a neon, too-bright-to-look-at, Pinguicula this is the one for you! “Antares”, created by Alex Avella, is a stunningly vibrant, magenta-pink flowered ping! The rosettes are large, with long leaves that can flush a deep red when grown in strong light!
These plants have a winter succulent phase in which they shed their carnivorous leaves and grow smaller succulent leaves. They greatly reduce in size, shrinking down to a tiny, cute little succulent rosette! If you order in winter, you plant will come in a tiny succulent rosette. But don’t worry, with proper conditions it will soon grow much larger carnivorous leaves and surprise you with its fantastically quick growth!
THIS PLANT WILL NOT COME POTTED, YOU WILL NEED TO POT IT UPON ARRIVAL.
Care Instructions
Sun: Sunny windowsills or in a terrarium under four T5 bulbs, filtered sun outdoors in the tropics
Water: Sitting in at least two inches of distilled or purified water from Spring through Summer and in winter they should be allowed to dry out slightly during their winter succulent phase
Temperature: 50 degrees - 90 degrees
Dormancy: no true dormancy but does have a winter succulent phase during which the plant will produce small succulent leaves instead of flat sticky leaves
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
This ping is extraordinary. Its leaves have a concave curl as they come in, then they sort of flip to a convex, downward curl once fully extended. Mine came with one flower and had since started a second bloom. I've had it about 2 weeks and the first flower hasn't yet started to wilt. Impressive. The flowers are so stunning - the deep red-fuschia is so saturated and bright that it glows. I couldn't get a pic to do justice to the flower, but it shows the unique curl of the leaves. This is one of the most unique pings in my growing collection of more than 2 dozen pings.
It bloomed within a week of arriving. Gorgeous!
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