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By earlgrey
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Joined:  Sun Aug 24, 2014 12:34 am
#215002
So I received this h. Purpurascens a few weeks ago and it was severely damaged during shipping. So now its just been receiving TLC and just noticed something bizarre this morning. I think that it might be growing a flower stalk? Can someonecorrect me if I'm wrong? I'm really confused. ...

Here's the plant
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And a close up. ..Image
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By SFLguy
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Joined:  Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:29 am
#215014
Wow that is really odd, that does indeed look like a flower coming up!
By Sander
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Joined:  Thu Nov 29, 2012 6:29 pm
#215019
Its hard to say for me, i only had one heliamphora flower (almost opening btw) but it didnt look like this, it looked more like a fallus :mrgreen:

This could well be a new pitcher with the spoon pointed downwards, in a day or what u will be able to distinct between a pitcher and flowerstalk :)
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