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sarracenia

Sarracenia 'Monks Head Hammerhead'

First described
2021

A Hummer's Hammerhead-related clone with even more exaggerated floppy lids and outstanding yellow coloration. Vigorous winter performer (frost-tolerant to 25F). 41 photos from Mike + adaetz100 (2021-2024). Mother plant lost to rot 2024-09; salvaged from a side-shoot.

Standout traits

  • Floppy, oversized lid — bigger than Hummer's Hammerhead. Lids 3+ inches wide, 2.5+ inches long on 9-inch pitchers
  • Outstanding yellow coloration
  • Fall traps far more impressive than spring (per Mike, adaetz100)
  • alabamensis parentage shows in spindly early-season growth
  • Mike (2024-09): mother plant lost to rot, salvaged via side-shoot from one clone
  • Excellent winter hardiness — survived multiple nights below 32F including one at 25F (Mike 2022-12)
  • Striking red winter coloration (adaetz100 2022-12)
  • psittacina cross genetics show in stretchy white fenestrations both front and back of tube

Cultivation

  • Vigorous despite spindly start — shows full potential in fall.
  • Mother plant rot risk (Mike 2024-09) — propagate side shoots.
  • Does well even with vigorous flowering (9 flowers + still huge fall traps in 2024 per adaetz100).

Photos (41)

Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-07-01— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-07-01— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-07-01— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-07-01— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-07-01— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-07-01— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-07-19— Mike Wang
so YELLOW, 2021-07-19— Mike Wang
lid folding in wind, 2021-07-19— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-07-19— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-10-17— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-10-17— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2021-10-17— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2022-07-18— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2022-07-18— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2022-07-18— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2022-12-05 — frost-tolerant— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2022-12-05— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2022-12-05— Mike Wang
Monks Head Hammerhead, 2022-12-05— Mike Wang
MHH winter red form, 2022-12— adaetz100
MHH winter red form, 2022-12— adaetz100
MHH winter red, late 2022-12— adaetz100
MHH winter red, late 2022-12— adaetz100
MHH winter, Canon— adaetz100
MHH spring spindly start, 2023— adaetz100
MHH, 2023— adaetz100
MHH fall trap, 3+ inch lid— adaetz100
MHH fall trap detail— adaetz100
white sock fenestrations, fall 2023— adaetz100
developing white-sock fenestrations— adaetz100
MHH first encounters of the hammerhead kind— adaetz100
MHH spring 2024 — flowering year still huge lid— adaetz100
MHH spring 2024— adaetz100
MHH spring 2024— adaetz100
MHH post-rot recovery, 2024-09-10— Mike Wang
MHH start of fall traps, 2024-09-10— Mike Wang
MHH, 2024-09-10— Mike Wang
MHH, 2024-09-10— Mike Wang
MHH with umlauftiana foreground— Mike Wang

Naming

'Monks Head Hammerhead' — name origin discussed in CPN v46 n3 p109-114 (referenced by jgreen1025). Mike originally received it labeled 'Monkshe Ad Hammerhead' (same letters, just spaced wrong) — both names refer to the same clone.