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sarracenia flava

Sarracenia flava 'Killer' Okaloosa Co, FL

Okaloosa Co, FL

First described
2012
Type
individual clone extirpated roadside locality
Cultivar
'Killer'

Origin

Wild origin Okaloosa Co, FL — Mike (post #6, 2012-07-03). calen (post #15, 2016-07-05) reports learning the clone came from a now-destroyed roadside site along Interstate 10 in Okaloosa. Mike's working hypothesis: this is a complex-hybrid plant of likely atropurpurea descent (post #8, 2012; post #18, 2022).

History

  • 2012-05-19 — Mike's introduction post; "this plant is KILLER!"
  • 2012-06-24 — paulbarden notes the pink lip and suspects hybridity (echoes Adrian Slack)
  • 2012-07-03 — Mike confirms Okaloosa Co locality
  • 2013-05-27 — Mike says "the plant pretty much looks almost exactly the same as last year" — phenotype-stable
  • 2014-06-12 — Mike: featured on the Sarracenia forum T-shirts; notes slow growth and a possible flower for breeding
  • 2016-06-07 to 2016-07-05 — calen documents flowering and proposes the I-10 roadside origin
  • 2020-06-14 — calen revives the thread; notes leuco-like late- blooming pattern, suggests historic leuco hybridization
  • 2022-06-02 — Mike posts mother-plant photos (still slow), and documents a Killer × rugelii Clone A cross with red offspring, rebutting earlier cross-contamination speculation

Standout traits

  • Pink lip + red-vein face. The signature spookiness Mike highlights
  • Slow + phyllodia-prone. Mike's main complaint about the clone
  • Forum-T-shirt status. Iconic among the meizzwang-board community
  • Breeding-evidenced hybridity. Cross with rugelii A produced red offspring — Mike accepts this as supporting his complex-hybrid origin hypothesis

Cultivation notes

Slow grower; only 2-3 traps per year for Mike. Phyllodia mode by early July. Cooler-climate growers (calen) report it's the latest flava in the collection to bloom and open traps.

Photos

Nine Mike-source photos imported, 2012-2022. See photos[].

Standout traits

  • Pink lip with red veining — paulbarden (post #3) suspected hybridity due to pink-lip Adrian-Slack-like coloring
  • Mike's Suspicion: clone is rubricorpora-or-ornata-back-crossed with another flava — historic complex hybridity in the wild
  • Slow grower — only 2-3 traps per year for Mike; phyllodia mode by early July like S. oreophila
  • Mike has crossed Killer with rugelii Clone A and got red offspring (2022 post — refutes earlier cross-contamination speculation)
  • Featured on Sarracenia forum T-shirts (Mike, post #9, 2014-06-12)
  • Late to bloom and open traps — like a leucophylla — calen's hypothesis of historic leuco hybridization

Cultivation

Outdoor Northern California for Mike — slow grower, only 2-3 traps per year, phyllodia-mode early summer. calen (Cold Spring, OR) reports it's the LAST flava in the collection to bloom and open traps. Mike (post #18, 2022-06-02): "Killer absolutely SUCKS for me!" — but the genetics are valuable; first deliberate cross with rugelii Clone A produced red-offspring proof.

Photos (9)

Killer first trap with the 'glow', 2012-05-19— Mike Wang
Killer 2012-05— Mike Wang
Killer 2012-05— Mike Wang
Killer 2012-05— Mike Wang
2012-06-24— Mike Wang
2014-06-05 — 'not as deadly this year'— Mike Wang
2014-06-05— Mike Wang
2022-06-01 — slow growth, mother plants barely a few inches— Mike Wang
Killer × rugelii Clone A red offspring evidence, 2022-06-01— Mike Wang

Naming

Mike (post #1, 2012-05-19): "When I saw this first trap open, I thought to myself, yes, absolutely... this plant is KILLER!" The trap shape — eyes-in-throat + lip-as-evil-grin — gave the clone its spook-evoking nickname.