Round chicken fowl
Pinguicula cyclosecta
One of the most beautiful species, native to the state of Leon in Mexico.
The leaves are oval-spatulate, 2-3 cm in diameter collected in a tight spiral almost flat rosette. Each plant during the vegetation period forms 25-30 leaves.
Color silver-gray with an explicit purple hue, the intensity of which increases to the edge of the leaf blade.
Flowers on long peduncles, five-membered, asymmetrical, 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter, two upper petals smaller, rounded, three lower-oval-ovate. Bright-violet coloring is surprisingly in harmony with the shade of the leaves. The stalking leaves of this species form under the ground.
Mechanism of catching insects in the frying pan is quite simple. Leaves have some capacity for limited movements. On their shiny surface are two types of glands: one on long stalk legs give out a sticky liquid, and others - sessile - digestive enzymes. The dimensions of the glands are microscopic, their number on one comparatively small sheet reaches several thousand.
Extraordinarily diverse in shape are the flowers of the arctic fishes. Sometimes they are very beautiful and original. Coloring can be white, pink, blue, yellow, purple, violet. In the Aphroditae variety( hybrid P. agnate x P. mozterumae), fleshy elongated leaves and refined forms resembling a butterfly, flowers.
Courtship. A half-dead place is quite suitable for a woman, she is 5 hours a day of bright scattered light. Watering from May to September is carried out so that between the two irrigations the upper layer of the substrate is slightly dried. It is best to use rainwater. Watered gently, trying not to get water into the center of the outlet. Humidity is maintained at 70-80%.The optimum temperature during the vegetation period is 25 ° C during the day and 20 ° C at night, but at high humidity the plant can withstand, and briefly rise to 35 ° C.For immigrants from the tropics in winter, reduce the temperature to 10 ° C, and in the rest period for some species to 4 ° C, and reduce watering.
European buckwheat for normal growth requires a rest period. To do this, they are placed on the lower shelf of the refrigerator, where they stand for 3 to 5 weeks.
As a substrate, use a mixture of vermiculite with coarsely chopped peat in a ratio of 3: 1, or live sphagnum, peat and coarse sand in equal proportions. Abroad in the substrate sometimes add pozzolan - light small pieces, which are a frozen volcanic lava. Some authors recommend adding a small amount of dolomite flour to the substrate, especially if there is too much peat in the substrate to stabilize the pH.There are almost no fatteners for paupers.
The litter is affected by aphids and mites.
Propagate the chickenpox with seeds and leaf cuttings. For the first and second groups of fatteners, the main way is propagation. In some species, at the tips of the leaves, small daughter plants are formed - the phenomenon of the so-called "false live birth".They are carefully separated and rooted. In scientific institutions and botanic gardens, reproduction by tissue culture is possible - several cells are placed on a nutrient medium of complex composition, and after the period of the multiplication of these cells, differentiation begins. In this process, cells acquire a specific structure and perform various functions, then organs are formed.