Field Reports

Pinguicula alpina in Habitat in Northern Italy

Lake Idro is one of the highest lakes in Lombardy (368 m). It is long and narrow (2 by 10 km) and is famous for trout fishing.It is completely surrounded by ...

Pinguicula grandiflora subsp. grandiflora at the Col of Marie-Blanque

Lionel Dromard is a member of DSOT, Dionee Sud-Ouest Tourbieres, a very active group involved in the knowledge of carnivorous plants. They plan each year ma...

Pinguicula leptoceras in habitat - an alpine tour

Here are some old photographs of an alpine tour which I made on the last week of august in 2004. My main aim was to botanise in the central European Alps, wh...

Pinguicula lilacina in the wild in Veracruz

Veracruz it is a state with very assorted climate, that is going from the warm wet until very cold, with perpetuate snows. However, the dominant climate thro...

Pinguicula longifolia subsp. longifolia at Valle de Pineta, Spain

The National Park can be divided into four areas. Valle de Pineta, Valle de Escuain , Canon de Anisclo, and Valle de Ordesa. The beautiful and big Pineta Val...

Discovering Pinguicula takakii in the wild in San Luis Potosi

Here are many pictures of Pinguicula takakii in wild I took during the trip I did with Fernando and Adolfo. More pictures and field notes can also be seen on...

Discovering Pinguicula elhersiae or P. debbertiana in the wild in San Luis Potosi

Some Pinguicula species have so close rosette that it is not possible to distinguish without flowers. This is the case of the species depicted below that can...

Discovering Pinguicula gypsicola in the wild in San Luis Potosi

Here are many pictures of Pinguicula gypsicola in wild I took during the trip I did with Fernando and Adolfo. More pictures and field notes can also be seen ...

Preview of Fernando travels in Mexico

This is not a secret. Fernando Rivadavia is discovering Pinguicula everywhere, not in Brazil but in Mexico. He has joined two others enthousiasts from Mexico...

Discovering Pinguicula acuminata and P. crassifolia in the wild

El Chico National Park is located on the eastern side of the Sierra de Pachuca mountains and ranges in altitude from 2,320 meters to a height of 3,090 meters...

Discovering Pinguicula elhersiae in El Tepozan, Queretaro, Mexico

Here are the pictures from the field trip of Ruben. Along the way to P. ehlersiae location, you can see growing Pinguicula moranensis (here in resting rosette)

Pinguicula moranensis var. neovolcanica in the wild at Iztlaccihuatl-Popocatepetl

The National Park Iztaccihuatl-Popocatépetl is situated at 83 km SE from Mexico City via federal highway 115, you get to the Cortez Pass, a place located rig...

Pinguicula oblongiloba in habitat in Michoacan, Mexico

Pinguicula oblongiloba can be found growing on a mountain near Jiquilpan, Michoacan state in Mexico on the north side. Reaching the site take about 3 hours o...

OLIVER’S MEXICAN TRIP No. 1 - A Ping tour weekend

After having multiple occasions going to Southern Chile over several years for business and seeing different sites of Pinguicula chilensis, I got a new oppor...

El Chico National Park, Hidalgo

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Pinguicula crassifolia, Pinguicula moranensis var. neovolcanica and Pinguicula acuminata. (By Oliver Gluch)

From Molango to San Luis Potosí

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico Part 2 - Pinguicula moranensis, Pinguicula ibarrae and Pinguicula agnata

San Luis Potosi to the Arroyo Tolimán Canyon

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 3 - Pinguicula gypsicola and Pinguicula Ehlersiae

From the Arroyo Tolimán Canyon to Puebla

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 4 - Pinguicula agnata and Pinguicula elizabethiae

From Puebla to Sierra Juarez

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 5 - Pinguicula moranensis and Pinguicula emarginata

In Oaxaca

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 6 - Pinguicula hemiepiphytica, Pinguicula heterophylla, Pinguicula orchidioides

In the Sierra Madre del Sur to Santiago Jamiltepec

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 7 - Pinguicula moranensis

From Santiago Pinotepa Nacional to Santiago Juxtlahuaca

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 8 - Pinguicula moranensis and a possible new species close to P. heterophylla.

From Laguna Encantada to Santiago Nuyoo pass

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 9 - Pinguicula medusina, Pinguicula moranensis and Pinguicula conzattii

From Oaxaca de Juarez to Pinguicula laueana

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 10 - Pinguicula heterophylla, Pinguicula laueana and Pinguicula moranensis

From Oaxaca to Tehuacan

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 11 - Pinguicula mirandae

In Sierra Gorda mountains

A 5600 Kms Tour In Mexico - Part 12 (Final) - P. calderoniae, P. moranensis and P. martinezii.

Pinguicula parvifolia in the wild at Camino a Chalma, Morelos

The State of Morelos in Mexico, 4 950 km² with an elevation of 1,000 to 3,300 mts, has a year round temperature of approximately 25ºC (77ºF) with low humidit...

Looking for Pinguicula elongata in Colombia

This all started when Joe Griffin mentioned on the CP Listerver that he had received seed of P.elongata from someone in Colombia. I immediately e-mailed him ...

Plant Delights/Yucca Do Expedition to Mexico

Plant exploration is something we read about in the garden history books…tales of slashing through the jungles, climbing mountains, or trudging thru deserts,...

San Luis Potosi

POSTCARD from Mexico N°1 - Pinguicula agnata, P. moranensis, P. lilacina - I first tried to find P.esseriana in the municipality of Cadereyta, on the road fr...

Sergio Zamudio, and Pinguicula macrophylla in Guanajuato

POSTCARD from Mexico N°2 - Last weekend I went to Patzcuaro, Michoacan state, to meet THE man, Zamudio himself! We spent several hours together talking about...

Pinguicula gypsicola, P. takakii…

POSTCARD from Mexico N°3 - Pinguicula gypsicola, P. takakii, P. ehlersiae, P. debbertiana, a natural hybrid and P. potosiensis - I had a FANTASTIC weekend! A...

Oaxaca - the 1st expedition

POSTCARD from Mexico N°4 - Pinguicula hemiepiphytica, P. moranensis, and P. orchidioides or P. stolonifera - Another 1400km over the weekend, this time to an...

Oaxaca Trip No. 2

POSTCARD from Mexico N°5 - A new species of Pinguicula from Tonala - P. heterophylla, P. medusina, P. laueana, P. orchidioides, Catopsis berteroniana, P. hem...

Weekend in Hidalgo and Mexico states

POSTCARD from Mexico N°6 - Pinguicula crassifolia, P. from Molango, P.agnata, and P.crenatiloba - On Saturday the 6th of December I drove ~650km into Hidalgo...

Oaxaca Trip No. 3

POSTCARD from Mexico N°7 - Pinguicula mirandae and P. conzattii - Friday the 12th of December was a holiday in Mexico (day of the virgin Guadalupe). I took t...

Carnivorous plants on the Inca Trail

In late January I went for work to Peru ,a country I’d never visited before. I’d long been waiting for this opportunity, since I wanted to do a little touris...

El Chico

POSTCARD from Mexico N°9 - Pinguicula acuminata, Sr. Adolfo’s greenhouse, and P. crassifolia - It wasn’t in my plans initially, but I ended up going Ping hun...

An ehlersiae-ish Weekend

POSTCARD from Mexico N°10 - Pinguicula ehlersiae, Monarch butterflies Sanctuary and P. moranensis - This past weekend I drove nearly 1000km and passed throug...

A Trip to Northeast Mexico

POSTCARD from Mexico N°11 - Pinguicula ehlersiae, esseriana, jaumavensis, cyclosecta and reticulata - I had a 3-day weekend to go Ping hunting from March 5-7...

Two in One

POSTCARD from Mexico N°12 - Pinguicula immaculata, nivalis, reticulata, rotundiflora, moranensis, heterophylla and Utricularia livida - Time flies, so here g...

Pinguicula emarginata at last!

POSTCARD from Mexico N°13 - After a frustrated attempt to find P.emarginata on March 20th, I returned to the Puebla/ Veracruz border on Saturday March 27th f...

A trip through Chiapas and Oaxaca

POSTCARD from Mexico N°14 - Pinguicula moranensis - Part 1 - Between April 3-12, 2004, I drove ~4500km around southern Mexico, mostly through the states of C...

A trip through Chiapas and Oaxaca

POSTCARD from Mexico N°14 - Pinguicula clivorum - Part 2 - P.clivorum was discovered and described in the 1940’s, the type specimen coming from San Juan Ixco...

A trip through Chiapas and Oaxaca

POSTCARD from Mexico N°14 - Part 3 - Pinguicula from Sumidero canyon, Martynia annua - We knew there were Pings somewhere in the Sumidero Canyon. For several...

A trip through Chiapas and Oaxaca

POSTCARD from Mexico N°14 - P. moranensis and P. laueana - Part 4 - It had taken us heavy detective work to find that site, using sketchy information and old...

A trip through Chiapas and Oaxaca

POSTCARD from Mexico N°14 - P. moranensis, P. rectifolia and few others plants - Part 5 - On day 8 of our trip, we left Oaxaca City heading NW for a little o...

Carnivorous Plants in Guerrero

POSTCARD from Mexico N°15 - Utricularia petersoniae, P. orchidioides, P. moranensis and P. zecheri - Knowing that I’d be back in Mexico – supposedly for work...

Colonial History, Mummies & Pinguicula in Guanajuato

POSTCARD from Mexico N°16 - Pinguicula macrophylla - From July 11-13, 2006, I visited the lovely historical town of Guanajuato in central Mexico. I was in fa...

Pinguicula Hunting in Mexico with the Barefoot Boys

POSTCARD from Mexico N°17 - P. esseriana, P. moranensis and P. agnata - We started out early on Saturday morning heading towards the small town of La Mora, w...

Exploring the Toliman Canyon

POSTCARD from Mexico N°18 - Hidalgo State - P. agnata and P. elizabethiae - It was along this road that we saw our first Pinguicula, P.agnata. We found two s...

Sierra Gorda and Moctezumae

POSTCARD from Mexico N°19 - P. moranensis, P. agnata and P. elhersiae - Another weekend in Mexico, another Ping hunt with my friend Ruben Resendiz. And this ...

Taxco & Tejupilco

POSTCARD from Mexico N°20 - P. moranensis, P. crenatiloba, U. hintonii, P. heterophylla and P. parvifolia - On the weekend of August 19-20, 2006, I spent an...

Jalisco and Colima

POSTCARD from Mexico N°21 - Pinguicula colimensis - During my first weekend in Mexico (November 15-16), I decided to go easy on my work colleague, Natalhie, ...

San Luis Potosi

POSTCARD from Mexico N°22 - Pinguicula gypsicola, P. takakii and P. moranensis - We left early on Saturday morning, the 22nd of November, heading north from ...

Sierra Gorda

POSTCARD from Mexico N°23 - Pinguicula martinezii and P. moranensis - I left Guanajuato late in the afternoon of Friday the 28th and only stopped to sleep at...

La Florida

POSTCARD from Mexico N°24 - Pinguicula lilacina and P. moranensis - After finding P.martinezii on Saturday the 29th of November, 2008 (much faster than I exp...

Moctezuma Canyon

POSTCARD from Mexico N°25 - Pinguicula moctezumae - I sped down the mountain along the dirt road, quickly leaving P.lilacina behind. The Moctezuma Canyon was...

Northeastern Pings

POSTCARD from Mexico N°26 - P. gracilis, P. immaculata, P. rotundiflora, P. jaumavensis - I finished work at Irapuato early on Thursday and realized I had al...

Temperate Pinguicula in Europe - Jan Flisek’s Postcard

From Czech Republic to Gibraltar and back, passing by France, Spain and Switzerland. I returned from trip to Spain few days ago. I send you some photos. I wo...

Pinguicula vulgaris at Lake of Trout or Forlet Lake, France Vosges

Also named Forlet Lake. This is the highest lake in the Vosges area. You can then reach the top of the moutains around the lake (about 1 hour) following a ha...

Pinguicula oblongiloba in Michoacan, Mexico.

Forbes and I located this site in northern Michoacan, Mexico hoping to find P. oblongiloba and P. crenatiloba. While we were unable to find either flowers or...

Pinguicula moranensis in Taxco, Guerrero, and in Mexico State

Its raining here in Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico, so this gives Forbes and I a good excuse to take a break from ping hunting and post some more photos. Here is an...

Pinguicula parvifolia in Habitat

My feet making crunching noises as I stepped on brown fallen oak leaves the size of dinner plates, I scanned the downward slope for Pinguicula flowers. AHA! ...

Three Pinguicula species and hybrids in Guerrero, Mexico.

We visited a small, romantic village composed of an unnavigatable maze of quaint cobblstone streets. It is set on a hillside at roughly 2000 m. altitude. Nea...

Pinguicula medusina in habitat in Laguna Encatada,Oaxaca, Mexico.

P. medusina is P. heterophylla’s pretty cousin. Or perhaps even a sister. This population is growing on a steep gypsum hillside, along with Selaginella, Pens...

Pinguicula conzattii in habitat in Oaxaca, Mexico

Having been deprived of our bicycles by some bored vandals with wire cutters and sledgehammers, we have been doing most of our local traveling on foot. In th...

Pinguicula moranensis - Two Variable Sites from Oaxaca, Mexico

P. moranensis never ceases to amaze me with its high variability in flower colour and morphology, even within a single site! These two sites were no exception.

Pinguicula orchidioides in habitat

Before reaching the P. conzattii and P. moranensis locations detailed earlier, Noah and I were lucky enough to hit upon a fairly large population of P. orchi...

Pinguicula laueana in habitat

It could be considered a bit of a stretch, but yes, we did see P. laueana in the wild! I say a stretch because we were unable to reach most plants, and had a...

Pinguicula orchidioides and Pinguicula heterophylla in habitat

After the dismal lighting at the last P. orchidioides site, we were blessed with not only a break in the drizzle that has been plagueing us for the last few ...

Pinguicula hemiepiphytica in habitat

Recently, a Mexican was driving north from Oaxaca, touring the state with his family. Everyone else is asleep in the car - it´s been raining a long time now ...

Pinguicula heterophylla in habitat in Oaxaca

We’re in Oaxaca now. I really like this place… I think I might just come and live down here some day. Everything grows like a weed and the food and the cultu...

Quest for the holy grail

P. moranensis, P. acuminata, P. gypsicola - Having bid good-bye to our fellow Pinguicula hunting friends Fernando Rivadavia and Ruben Resendiz, Forbes Conrad...

Pinguicula laxifolia in habitat

Having gone to see P. gypsicola in San Luis Potosi, Forbes Conrad and I were left with a week of time on our hands before we were to meet Fernando Rivadavia ...