Moctezuma Butterwort

Taxonomy

Ezinụlọ:	Lentibulariaceae
Genus:	Pinguicula
Nye iwu:	Lamiales

Nchịkọta

Pinguicula moctezumae is a Mexican butterwort with long, narrow, upright leaves and large pink to violet-purple flowers with a very long spur. It grows only on wet limestone deposits in the canyon of the Río Moctezuma, on the border of Querétaro and Hidalgo, and was discovered in 1994.

P. moctezumae is a perennial rosette plant with two kinds of leaves. The 'summer' leaves, 8 to 15 (rarely 20) per rosette, are erect, linear to lance-linear, pale green, (50) 60-100 (130) mm long and only 5-8 mm wide at the base, with rolled-back margins and a dense covering of sessile and stalked glands. Young leaves have an incurved or spiralling tip. The 'winter' leaves, 20 to 30, are thick, elliptic and only 5-30 mm long, forming a compact resting rosette.

One to five slender flower stalks, 7-14 cm (3-5.5 in) tall, each carry a single large flower 45-55 mm long including the spur. The corolla is deeply two-lipped, pink or violet-purple with a white throat, with round lobes that often overlap; the cylindrical spur is 28-35 mm long. The authors placed it in section Orcheosanthus, subsection Violiformis, next to P. gypsicola, whose narrow leaves it closely resembles; its larger flowers with round, overlapping lobes recall P. colimensis.

Ozi gbasara ala

Mpaghara ala nna: Río Moctezuma canyon, Querétaro and Hidalgo, Mexico (endemic)

Mpaghara ihu igwe: Subtropical canyon seeps with a dry season

It grows on concretions of calcium carbonate (tufa) in the beds of small streams and on rock walls with seeping water, on limestone slopes at 900-1,100 m (2,950-3,600 ft) in the canyon of the Río Moctezuma, which forms the border between the states of Querétaro and Hidalgo. The authors called the habitat subaquatic, a feature that also separates it from P. gypsicola. The type locality lies in the municipality of Cadereyta, Querétaro; the plant was first found between the dam wall and the powerhouse of the Zimapán hydroelectric project.

Njirimara anụ ahụ

Nha tozuru okè: Leaves 2.4-4 in (6-10 cm) long, up to 5 in (13 cm); flower stalks 3-5.5 in (7-14 cm)

Ọnụego uto: Moderate

Ụdị ọnyà: Flypaper Trap

The upper surfaces of the summer leaves are densely covered with sessile and stalked glands. Sticky mucilage on the leaves holds small insects such as fungus gnats, which are digested on the leaf. As in other heterophyllous Mexican butterworts, the thick winter leaves are not carnivorous.

Ntuziaka nlekọta

Chọrọ ọkụ

Bright light: a sunny window, greenhouse or plant lights. Seasonal light cues, with day length changing slowly through the year, help heterophyllous Mexican butterworts keep their cycle.

Natural or seasonally adjusted day length kwa ụbọchị

Ihe achọrọ mmiri

Ụdị: Low-mineral water; a salt crust on the soil surface is a sign to repot

Usoro: In the wild it grows in seeping water on limestone. In cultivation the ICPS tray method works: stand pots in up to 2 cm of water while the plant has carnivorous leaves, and let the tray dry for about a week between waterings when it forms its succulent winter rosette.

Ugboro ugboro: Keep moist while in summer leaf; water sparingly in the resting phase

iru mmiri: Warm and humid while in active growth

Ala

A mineral-rich, well-drained mix such as equal parts peat, coarse sand and perlite with dolomitic lime, or a pure mineral mix in humid greenhouses. Limestone sand suits a plant that grows on calcium carbonate in the wild.

pH: Alkaline (grows on calcium carbonate in the wild)

Okpomọkụ

Oge okpomọkụ: Warm; normal house temperatures

Oge oyi: Cooler and drier

Nri

Ugboro ugboro: Usually unnecessary; catches fungus gnats and other small insects

Mexican Pinguicula appreciate light fertilization, such as a dilute orchid fertilizer foliar spray. Avoid acid-based fertilizers and over-fertilizing trays.

Mgbasa

Ụzọ: Leaf pullings, preferably using the succulent leaves of the winter rosette. Seed after hand pollination, since the flowers cannot pollinate themselves; sow on the surface at 15-25°C (60-80°F), where it germinates in 4-8 weeks.

Ihe isi ike: Easy

Ndụmọdụ mmalite

Give it bright light, a gritty, lime-rich mix and pure water, and let it dry out more in winter.

Nchọpụta nsogbu

Plants that never form a resting rosette and decline over time: give seasonal light and water cues. Salt crust or crowded roots: repot. Leaves eaten near the soil: fungus gnat larvae.

Ndụmọdụ na-eto eto

Let it rest Seasonal

When the long leaves give way to a tight rosette of short, thick leaves, water less until the long carnivorous leaves return.

A limestone plant General

In the wild it grows on wet calcium carbonate. Add dolomitic lime or limestone sand to the mix rather than using acidic bog soil.

Eziokwu Na-akpali mmasị

It was found during environmental surveys for the Zimapán hydroelectric dam.
In the wild it has been seen flowering throughout the year.
It keeps its summer leaves as long as its seep stays wet, and forms a tight resting rosette only when the site dries out.
Its long leaves are passed on to hybrids: the cultivar 'Aphrodite' (P. agnata × P. moctezumae) has arching, elongated leaves.
The name refers to the canyon of the Río Moctezuma where it was discovered.

Agụgụala

Ricardo Zirahuen Ortega and colleagues discovered the plant in January 1994 while surveying the Río Moctezuma canyon between the dam wall and the powerhouse of the Zimapán hydroelectric project, where it was growing on the bed of a small stream. Sergio Zamudio and Ortega described it as a new species the same year in Acta Botanica Mexicana, from a type specimen collected on 3 March 1994 at 1,050 m in the municipality of Cadereyta, Querétaro, by E. Pérez-Calix. The related P. elisabethiae was found during the same surveys.

The species is now widely available from carnivorous plant nurseries and has been used as a parent of hybrids. 'Aphrodite', P. agnata × P. moctezumae, was raised by J. Flisek and K. Pasek in the Czech Republic in 1998 and registered in 2000.

Ebe obibi

Ajụjụ ndị a jụrụkarị

Bright light: a sunny window, greenhouse or plant lights. Seasonal light cues, with day length changing slowly through the year, help heterophyllous Mexican butterworts keep their cycle. N'ihe banyere Natural or seasonally adjusted day length nke ọkụ n'ụbọchị.

Low-mineral water; a salt crust on the soil surface is a sign to repot. In the wild it grows in seeping water on limestone. In cultivation the ICPS tray method works: stand pots in up to 2 cm of water while the plant has carnivorous leaves, and let the tray dry for about a week between waterings when it forms its succulent winter rosette.

A mineral-rich, well-drained mix such as equal parts peat, coarse sand and perlite with dolomitic lime, or a pure mineral mix in humid greenhouses. Limestone sand suits a plant that grows on calcium carbonate in the wild. N'ime ala pH: Alkaline (grows on calcium carbonate in the wild).

Ọ gaghị achọ nkwụsị. Oge okpomọkụ: Cooler and drier.

Mexican Pinguicula appreciate light fertilization, such as a dilute orchid fertilizer foliar spray. Avoid acid-based fertilizers and over-fertilizing trays. Olee ka a na-eme: Usually unnecessary; catches fungus gnats and other small insects.

Río Moctezuma canyon, Querétaro and Hidalgo, Mexico (endemic). It grows on concretions of calcium carbonate (tufa) in the beds of small streams and on rock walls with seeping water, on limestone slopes at 900-1,100 m (2,950-3,600 ft) in the canyon of the Río Moctezuma, which forms the border between the states of Querétaro and Hidalgo.

Leaf pullings, preferably using the succulent leaves of the winter rosette. Seed after hand pollination, since the flowers cannot pollinate themselves; sow on the surface at 15-25°C (60-80°F), where it germinates in 4-8 weeks.

Plants that never form a resting rosette and decline over time: give seasonal light and water cues. Salt crust or crowded roots: repot. Leaves eaten near the soil: fungus gnat larvae.

Ee. Ọ bụ otu n'ime osisi ndị dị mfe ịkụ ma ọ bụrụ na ọbụna ọkụ ya, mmiri ya na mkpa ya maka ala ahụ ejirila ya.

Ụdị emetụtara

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Pinguicula 'Sethos'

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Pinguicula gigantea

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Nọgide na-emelite na Moctezuma Butterwort

Denye aha ka ị nweta ndụmọdụ nlekọta, ntuziaka na-eto eto, na mmelite kpọmkwem maka Moctezuma Butterwort na osisi ndị ọzọ na-eri anụ.

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