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How many varieties of pitcher plants are there?


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Dear Braedon,

the following has lots of links about carnivorous plants:
http://www.sarracenia.com/faq.html

The Pitcher Plants include plants in the genera (groups) Darlingtonia, Heliamphora and Sarracenia.

You can look for all the names within any of these groups using a database like TROPICOS
http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search/pick.html

for example, searching for "Sarracenia" gives us a species list with about 16 names of species, and many more varieties and hybrids.

Sincerely,

Anthony R. Brach


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