Plant guide
Pinguicula 'Pirouette'
Mexican butterwort hybrid / Cultivated hybrid of Mexican species
A Mexican butterwort hybrid created by Leo Song from Pinguicula agnata x (Pinguicula moranensis x Pinguicula ehlersiae). Its layered rosette can range from pale green-pink to rich pink-red depending on growing conditions, with clear pink flowers. Smaller, more succulent leaves mark its seasonal resting phase.
Confirmed by the grower as Pinguicula 'Pirouette'.
- Care level
- Approachable
- Light
- Bright window or grow light; introduce stronger light gradually
- Water
- Distilled or reverse-osmosis water; moist in active growth, drier in succulent growth
- Season
- Reduce watering when smaller succulent leaves replace the sticky carnivorous leaves.
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Pinguicula 'Pirouette'
Layered bronze-pink leaves with fresh growth at the center of the rosette.
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Instructions that travel with the plant.
- Place near a bright window or under a grow light. Increase light gradually and protect the plant from excessive heat; leaf color varies with growing conditions.
- Use a loose, free-draining Mexican butterwort mix with ingredients such as coarse sand, perlite, and some peat. Choose a pot with drainage and avoid pre-fertilized growing media.
- Water with distilled or reverse-osmosis water. Keep the mix lightly moist while sticky carnivorous leaves are growing, but avoid waterlogged conditions.
- When a smaller, compact succulent rosette develops, reduce watering and allow longer dry intervals. Resume regular moisture when carnivorous growth returns; follow the plant's leaf form rather than a fixed date.
- To preserve the cultivar, propagate vegetatively with leaf pullings rather than seed. Smaller succulent leaves are suitable just before or as the summer leaves begin to emerge.