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Utricularia hintonii

Utricularia hintonii is a tiny annual bladderwort, a carnivorous plant that grows on wet rock in seasonal tropical Mexico. It is known only from its type location west-southwest of Mexico City, so it is rarely grown in cultivation.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the growing medium constantly wet during its growing season, in a shallow tray of water or as seasonally moist rock.
Soil
Very mineral, nutrient-poor substrate such as sand or fine gravel mixed with a little peat or sphagnum.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Mexico (México D.F., México State, Guerrero)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Utricularia hintonii is a small terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. hintonii is an annual lithophyte that is endemic to Mexico and is only known from the type location about 160 kilometres (160,000.0 m) west-southwest of Mexico City. It was originally collected by G. B. Hinton on June 10, 1933, and described as a new species by Peter Taylor in 1986, who named it in honor of Hinton.

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 hintonii 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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