Gallery of Bizarre Pinguicula Mutations

Sometimes our plants want to amaze us and adopt a so uncommon look…

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Pinguicula fiorii : flower with 6 lobes Photo : Eric Partrat	Pinguicula fiorii : flower with spidery form Photo : Eric Partrat
Pinguicula 'Weser' with two spurs and 6 corolla lobes Photo : Eric Partrat	Pinguicula 'Weser' with two spurs and 6 corolla lobes Photo : Eric Partrat
Pinguicula moranensis with a strange pitcher shape leaf on an aborted flower stalk. Photos : Eric Partrat	Pinguicula moranensis with a strange pitcher shape leaf on an aborted flower stalk. Photos : Eric Partrat
Pinguicula moranensis with a strange pitcher shape leaf on an aborted flower stalk. Photos : Eric Partrat	Pinguicula moranensis So, flower or leaf ? Photos : Eric Partrat
Strange crestate Pinguicula moranensis. (There were no greenflies ! ) Photo : Eric Partrat	Here is the reason of not using Brandy in your growing media Photo : Eric Partrat
Pinguicula poldinii with 4 corolla lobes Photo : Eric Partrat	This is a rare form of Pinguicula alpina 'green leaves' with at a distancy only of 5 cm, a Pinguicula alpina totally red. The two plants were in full sun !. Photo : Eric Partrat
This is a wall of an old middle-age castle. The yellow blotches are Pinguicula vulgaris. Is it a middle age form ? Photo : Eric Partrat	The plants are growing between the rocks. There are no Pinguicula vulgaris locations around (nearest at 25km). How does this population succeeded in climbing here ? If you don't believe me,have a look on the following picture of the castle ! Photo : Eric Partrat
	Impressive location, isn't it ? If you have an hypothesis to explain the arrival of Pinguicula vulgaris on this middle age castle, send a mail to contact An hypothesis from Daniele Sottili (Italy) " I've an hypotesis about your photo of P.vulgaris in a castle's wall: I read somewhere that P.vulgaris was used in the past centuries to curdle the milk to create cheese (I don't know what regions had this acient tradition), so maybe some people of the castle had collected plants with mature seed pods."
Pinguicula moranensis with a strange pitcher shape leaf. Photo : Kit Halsted - November 2002 -	Pinguicula moranensis with a strange pitcher shape leaf. Photo : Kit Halsted - November 2002 -
Pinguicula moranensis with a strange pitcher shape leaf. Photo : Kit Halsted - November 2002 -	Pinguicula pitcher This tissue-cultured P. moranensis was purchased from Agristarts by Steve LaWarre in late 2001 or early 2002. He noted that flowers from this batch of plants were sticky and had double spurs. I acquired it, and another from the same batch, in a trade in August 2002. I planted it in a tall, undrained, pot in an open soil mix and placed it in an East-facing window. Changing circumstances forced me to move it to a much less sunny West-facing window in late September 2002. I noticed this strange leaf after accidentally allowing the pot to dry out almost completely. The growth crowns of both of these plants are dividing. It's worth noting that the other plant, which has been in the West-facing window and watered on the tray method, appears to be almost perfectly normal. Kit Halsted email : kit@carnivorousplants.nyc.ny.us web site : http://www.carnivorousplants.nyc.ny.us/
Pinguicula moranensis with a strange pitcher shape leaf. Photo : Kit Halsted - November 2002 -	Pinguicula moranensis with a strange pitcher shape leaf. Photo : Kit Halsted - November 2002 -
A strange Pinguicula jaumavensis with bicolored leaves. Photo : Eric Partrat - September 2002 -	Pinguicula crystallina subsp. hirtiflora with three upper lobes.  Photo : Jurg Steiger

It is not Pinguicula ramosa in culture but a strange twin scapes on Pinguicula longifolia subsp. reichenbachiana. Photo : Eric Partrat - May 2003 -	This is a variegated Pinguicula ionantha. This plant stayed this way for over three years. I lost it when I went on vacation. This taught me the valuable lesson to share my plants with others so they won't be lost permanently. Photo : Ed Read Ed's World
This is of a double flowered P. laueana. Photo : Ed Read Ed's World	Here is a picture of a flower someone described as 'spread eagle.' It was from a hybrid of P.agnata 'CSUF' x P. moranensis 'Pachuca'. Unfortunately the rest of the flowers were normal. Photo : Ed Read Ed's World
A strange-looking flower with multiple/divided lobes on a P. moranensis 'Molango'. None of the other flowers on the plant show this feature. Photo : Vic Brown - June 2003 -	Double heart shaped lobes on Pinguicula longifolia subsp. longifolia in habitat.  It was in June so too late for Valentine's day !  Photo : Eric Partrat - May/June 2003 -
A pink flowered form of Pinguicula grandiflora subsp. grandiflora ?. It was the single plant among normally coloured population and it was not in Jura but in Pyrenees !. Loyd Wix found also a pink flowered Pinguicula grandiflora in La Baladosa, Andorra. If you want to see the site, follow this link.  Photo : Eric Partrat - May/June 2003 -	Twins flowers of Pinguicula longifolia subsp. caussensis on one scape. Photo in nature from Gorge du Tarn. Photo : Eric Partrat - April 2003 -
Twins flowers of Pinguicula longifolia subsp. caussensis on one scape. Photo in nature from Gorge du Tarn. Photo : Eric Partrat - April 2003 -	Twins pods of Pinguicula longifolia subsp. caussensis. I had the opportunity to go back there and confirm my feeling. Photo : Eric Partrat - May/June 2003 -

Pinguicula laueana 'SP1' from Mike King (UK) Photo : Victor Brown	Pinguicula 'Hans' from Cresco. This flower has 2 spurs and a forked upper lobe. Photo : Daniele Sottili (Italy)
Pinguicula 'Hans' from Cresco. This flower has 2 spurs and a forked upper lobe. Photo : Daniele Sottili (Italy)	Pinguicula 'Hans' from Cresco. This flower has 2 spurs and a forked upper lobe. Photo : Daniele Sottili (Italy)
Pinguicula moctezumae Photo : Bjørn Norman Jensen - October 2003 -

P. jaumavensis x P. cyclosecta. Photo : Jan Flisek - January 2004 -	Twin flowers on P. esseriana or P. ehlersiae (Cuidad Victoria). Photo : F.Rivadavia
Twin flowers on P. esseriana or P. ehlersiae (Cuidad Victoria). Photo : F.Rivadavia	Twin flowers on P. esseriana or P. ehlersiae (Cuidad Victoria). Photo : F.Rivadavia
Pinguicula esseriana or P. ehlersiae in wild (from Cuidad Victoria). Photo : F.Rivadavia	Twin flowers on P. esseriana or P. ehlersiae (Cuidad Victoria). Photo : F.Rivadavia
All these pictures from Fernando Rivadavia confirm a fact that anomalous are not restrictive to cultivated plants.	Pinguicula esseriana or P. ehlersiae in wild (from Cuidad Victoria). Note the two flowers with 6 corolla lobes. Photo : F.Rivadavia
Pinguicula ehlersiae  in wild with 6 corolla lobes from El Huizache. Photo : F.Rivadavia.	Pinguicula ehlersiae in wild with 6 corolla lobes from El Huizache. Photo : F.Rivadavia.

Pinguicula vallisneriifolia. Photo : Vic Brown - May 2004 -	Pinguicula longifolia subsp. caussensis in habitat with no upper lips ! Photo : Oliver Gluch www.gluch.info
Strange flower of P. heterophylla Photo : Markus Welge - May 2004 -	Plantlets developping on a leave of P. moranensis Photo : Iwein Coppens - April 2008 -