- First described
- 2024
- Type
- single clone locality selection
- Cultivar
- 'very yellow'
Origin
A wild-source Harrison Co, MS alata with strong yellow expression. Mike found it during a winter-survey walk through the collection, specifically because it was still standing while most of his Sarracenia collection had gone brown/dormant. The thread is more a note-to-self that this clone is worth checking next season at peak color than a comprehensive grow report.
Standout traits
- Strong yellow trap coloration.
- Late-season persistence — traps still upright in mid-December. Mike calls out alatas + rubras + select hybrids as the winter- tolerant clones in his collection; this one stands out among the alatas.
Standout traits
- Strong yellow expression — Mike's standout among Harrison Co alatas.
- Persistence: traps still standing in mid-December when most of Mike's collection is brown/dormant. Mike groups it with the 'winter-persistent' species/clones (alatas, rubras, some hybrids) that are valuable for winter-tolerance breeding.
- Mike framing: useful breeding stock for pitchers that survive 'mild freezes without turning brown.'
Cultivation
Late-season tolerance is the headline trait. By 2024-12-19, traps were aged and starting to senesce (turn brown), but they had persisted through dormancy onset later than most clones in Mike's collection. Mike: "a week earlier and this would have been in perfect condition." Worth photographing earlier in the season for full-color documentation.
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Naming
Descriptive: 'very yellow' — yellow trap expression standout from the locality's typical alata coloration.