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Post by rainforest on Mar 22, 2008 9:52:18 GMT -10
A review of Red Dragon, Marbled Dragon, and Black Dragon through the years. From its first inception, to plants with upper pitchers and future development in breeding efforts.
Michael
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Post by rainforest on Mar 24, 2008 8:40:22 GMT -10
N. Red Dragon This is a colorful assortment of reds and striped peristome hybrid combining N. thorelii and truncata. If you like red, then this is a plant for you. The juvenile form of this makes plants that produces multiple basal clusters easily making a plant that will be full of pitchers. This makes this variety a great candidate for hanging basket specimens. This is also a good choice for a plant that can do very well when planted in a hanging basket with internal reservoir system, as the parent N. thorelii loves wet feet. I have seen thickened roots in plants from root-bound culture and believe that this plant can also endure droughts and recover from drying out. Compared with this upper of the same. This does get huge, btw! M
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Post by rainforest on Mar 30, 2008 9:32:09 GMT -10
N. Marbled Dragon This plant at first glance might resemble N. maxima. But the maxima ends here when you see it attached the their truncate leaf. The plant of Marbled Dragon grows like a truncata that seeing the plant without its pitchers, you can easily get them confused. The plant grows very well in warm to intermediate climates and produces large dark marbled pitchers. As the pitchers matures into upper type pitchers, we see a more maxima-like upper with more green with just a red colored peristome, perhaps the truncata influence here as well. This plant does eventually develop into a hefty vine that can grow up anything. Hard pruning to the main stem encourages multiple side branching to develop and soon will fill a pot. This plant is one of the easiest beginner plants and will make a grand starter for someone wanting to have a huge pitchered plant in a small confine of space. This plant really does best when grown in as bright a location, to near full sunlight as possible. M
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Post by rainforest on Jun 12, 2008 10:27:23 GMT -10
Striped form of the Dragon. M
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Post by witzelsucht on Jun 15, 2008 17:48:17 GMT -10
Thanks for posting this thread. I don't grow any of these plants but when they first became available it seemed like there was infinite discussion about them and pictures of juvenile plants. I had rather wondered what they turned out like.
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