Pinguicula x “Twilight Sparkle” BARE ROOT

This new release for 2024 is highly anticipated by everyone at CalCarn! Pinguicula x “Twilight Sparkle” is an absolutely stunning new hybrid of cyclosecta and calderoniae! These plants were so purple in the jars in our tissue culture lab that Damon couldn’t wait to see them grow out! Long, ridiculously dew covered leaves emerge from an eggplant purple crown of tight leaves. Each leaf glows a soft purple with the edges deepening in color. Grow it under strong light to encourage that deep purple color! We haven’t bloomed this cross yet but we anticipate purple flowers, email us or tag us on social media if yours flowers!

These are long, strait leaves plants that are delicate and about the size of a quarter, we don’t expect them to grow much more than three inches across at the absolute maximum, so expect them to be on the smaller side.

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.  MEXICAN/TROPICAL PINGUICULA PREFER OUR SANDY PINGUICULA SOIL MIX.

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