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I am fairly new to Cephalotus, I have had this plant for about 6 months and it had been healthy with a few new mature pitchers. The last 4-6 weeks it has been growing this small bud, I am wondering if it is preparing to flower or what exactly is going on. I cannot seem to find a comparable picture. Thanks for the help!
Flower progress, time to pollinate!

I've never seen one myself either but I believe you are correct, that is a flower bud.

Looks like a flower bud to me.

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definitely a flower bud coming your way , happy ceph:-) a pic for comparison

Congrats! Mine has never flowered. But it also died while I couldn't take proper care of it during college and I had to grow it back from a leaf cutting!

Thanks everyone for the input, glad to see it's a flower! My growing experience has been pretty interesting with this Ceph, they really just do their own thing, grow when they want and stop when they want for whatever reason. I have a few baby pitchers not shown in the picture that developed a few months ago and never grew larger than a pea, yet it threw out another and grew to full size in a matter of weeks.
Very cool plants, they almost have a personality.

Wow! A flower? Nice! Keep us updated please, I'm interested to see its progress

It appears to be getting close to flowering finally! The only negative side effects so far have been the oldest pitcher died off, I don't know if this was due to the flower or just because it was old. Everything else looks pretty healthy still.

When the flowers open should I just allow nature to do it work and self pollinate or should I assist in pollinating?

Unless it's out where bees will get to it, you'll probably want to pollinate it yourself. You can probably use a tiny paintbrush.

Fishkeeper wrote:Unless it's out where bees will get to it, you'll probably want to pollinate it yourself. You can probably use a tiny paintbrush.

I have been reading up on some of my sundews flowering and clearly got myself confused since Cephs don't self pollinate. Thanks for the nudge, I will certainly get the paintbrush ready.

Edit: ok looks like they WILL self pollinate but it is probably best to help them along with pollination for better success.

Flowers finally started opening and I have begun pollinating by hand but I find it EXTREMLY difficult to see the Stigma to tell if it is receptive or not. Such tiny flowers.