About three years ago (unless it was four?), I tried to grow some epiphytic Utricularia in the pitchers of my biggest Heliamphora, H. folliculata here. And it works quite well. Each year, I am rewarded by one or several scapes with beautiful purple flowers. I just spray all the plants from time to time and when I give some foliar feeling, the bladderwort, of course,benefit from it. Don't you think that my Heliamphora produce three years old pitchers! When the pitcher where the bladderwort lies wither, I just remove it and set it in another pitcher. The Utricularia does not bother at all. As you can see below, the visual association of both species is quite magnificent.
Can you spot the Utricularia flower in the first photo below?
My H. folliculata is really enjoying the cool temperatures. Since it's producing a lot of pitchers, I am considering to conduct the experiment with some other species of bladderworts like U. longifolia or U. endresii. We'll see.
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