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Utricularia involvens

Utricularia involvens
Photo: fischermans, CC BY-SA 3.0

Utricularia involvens is a medium-sized, probably perennial bladderwort, a carnivorous plant that traps tiny aquatic prey in bladders on its roots and shoots. It grows in wet grasslands and open ground in Southeast Asia and northern Australia, so it needs constantly moist conditions and bright light.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the growing medium constantly wet, standing in shallow water or saturated sphagnum where possible.
Soil
Nutrient-poor, acidic mix such as sphagnum moss, sand or perlite; avoid fertilizer.
Temperature
20–35 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Myanmar to Pen. Malaysia, N. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Utricularia involvens is a medium-sized, probably perennial, carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. It grows naturally in southeastern Asia (Burma, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand) and northern Australia. U. involvens grows as a terrestrial plant in wet grasslands or open vegetation, usually at low altitudes but ascending to 900 m (2,953 ft) in Malaysia. It was originally described and published by Henry Nicholas Ridley in 1895.

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 involvens 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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