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Utricularia dunlopii

Utricularia dunlopii is a small annual terrestrial bladderwort, a carnivorous plant that traps tiny aquatic animals in bladders on its roots and stems. It is a wild species of northern Australia and is rarely grown in cultivation, so keep it moist and in strong light if you attempt it.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil constantly wet or standing in shallow water during the growing season.
Soil
Nutrient-poor, acidic mix such as peat with sand or perlite.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. Western Australia to N. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Utricularia dunlopii is an annual terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia (family Lentibulariaceae). Its distribution ranges from Western Australia to the Northern Territory.

Other Utricularia plants

Utricularia adpressa · Utricularia albiflora · Utricularia albocaerulea · Utricularia alpina · Utricularia ameliae · Florida purple bladderwort · Utricularia andongensis · Utricularia antennifera · Utricularia appendiculata · Utricularia arcuata · Utricularia arenaria · Utricularia arnhemica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Utricularia dunlopii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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