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Propagation -- Heliamphora Leaf Pullings (846 words) |
 | Someday I was removing the dry leafs from one Heliamphora and sometimes these old leafs are still firmly fixed to the base of growing tips so when I pulled one big old leaf it broke one tip with some small leafs without any root. |
| Of course it was not a good sight but I had an idea based in a previous experience: when I was cleaning sarracenias the same thing happened and by curiosity I inserted the tip in the soil of the plant pot and some time after that the tip was producing new leafs. |
| Of course I cannot prove if my theory is true or not, however the incontestable fact is that the Heliamphoras are thriving on the same pots of pinguiculas with the sand and long fibered sphagnum mix as proven on later pictures. |
| Heliamphora folliculata (0 words) |
| The appendage is fused with the back of the pitcher forming a hollow structure running downwards on the outside of the back of the pitcher, apparently working as a chamber to store nectar produced by the glands of the appendage. |
| Heliamphora folliculata is only known from the Aparaman-group of Tepuis, where we found it on all four mountains: Aparaman Tepui, Murosipan Tepui, Tereke Tepui and Kamakeiwaran Tepui. |
| Heliamphora folliculata plants were usually found growing in exposed areas with short vegetation such as grasses, bromeliads, Xyris or Stegolepis. |
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