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Jameson's Utricularia

Utricularia jamesoniana

Jameson's Utricularia
Photo: Alexey Yakovlev, CC BY-SA 4.0

Jameson's Utricularia is a small carnivorous bladderwort that grows perched on mossy tree trunks in humid tropical forests. It needs constant moisture and high humidity, and it catches small prey in tiny bladder traps.

Family
Lentibulariaceae (Lentibulari family)
Grows as
Tree, Epiphyte, Perennial
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the moss or medium constantly moist, ideally with rainwater or distilled water.
Soil
Live sphagnum moss or a mix of moss and perlite, kept wet.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Mexico (Chiapas) to Trop. America
Climate
wet tropical

About

Utricularia jamesoniana is a small perennial epiphyte carnivorous plant in the family Lentibulariaceae. It is native to Central America, the Antilles, and northern and western South America. Specifically, it can be found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela and on the islands of Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Dominica, and Martinique. The species was originally published and described by Daniel Oliver in 1860. Its habitat is reported as being mossy tree trunks in montane cloud forests or lowland rain forests at altitudes from sea level to 2,500 m (8,202 ft). It flowers year-round.

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 jamesoniana 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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