Accession Data

Byblis liniflora

Common Name: Rainbow Plant

Family: Byblidaceae

Country of Origin: northern Australia, New Guinea

Description: One of a few genera of flowering plants requiring 'buzz pollination' by bees.

Accession Data

Accession #: 200201858

Accession Date: 2002-07-29 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2309

Quantity: 2

Source: Marcia Kirinus - Duke

Provenance: Rcvd from Marcia Kirinus at AERGC Annual Meeting - Duke# 02-025

Culture: prefers a little drier soil than other CP's - grow in a deeper pot in a 50:50 sand:peat mix. Grows best with tropical conditions and uniformly damp, but not waterlogged soils.
Dry summer dormancy in its native habitat, but this dry period does not appear to be required in cultivation.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Lamiales

Family: Byblidaceae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, September 07, 2017.
  2. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, September 07, 2017.
  3. Image #00 (cropped) & #02 (original) by No machine-readable author provided. Denis Barthel assumed (based on copyright claims). [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.0 de], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Wednesday, September 27, 2017.

Images

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