>Now in my greenhouse, Utric hybrid (U.alpina x endresii) is blooming.
>Barry-san:
>How do you like your Utrics?
Isao-san,
It is very interesting your hybrid is blooming. My specimen of this plant
is doing very well, and I am looking forward to when it flowers. The other
things you have sent are doing very well. Arigato! Are the flowers on your
hybrid like _U.alpina_ or _U.endresii_ or both?
Regarding the white-flowered _Pinguicula_ from the US...
>Now I come to a slightly different problem. The second one--which I
>also thought was _P.caerulea_ has not fully opened yet, but it is
>obvious that it is going to have white flowers. I never knew there
>was a white-flowered version of this plant, although in every other
>respect the structure is the same. The only other noticeable
>difference is the height of the scape. In the _P.caerulea_, it is
>close to a foot in height, but the newer one is less than half that.
I've keyed out the occasional strangely coloured US Ping, and so can
empathise with your situation. In keying variant US Pings, you cannot use
scape height, sadly. Look through SCHNELL and pay attention to the nature
of the palate---is it exserted or not? I have or heard of white specimens of
several species. For example I am growing a white-flowered _P.primuliflora_.
You can easily determine if you have _P.caerulea_ by the nature of the hairs
on the scape base, which will be particularly easy since you have a normal
clone of the plant. Note that the scape base has long hairs which are not
glandular, while the upper scape has short glandular hairs. _P.caerulea_ is
the only US species with this nature to the hairs.
Good luck,
Barry