Sarracenia clones, Nepenthes crosses, Drosera, Dionaea, Pinguicula: carnivorous collections are full of named clones, locality data, and seasonal change. Leafolio keeps the names, sources, and pitcher records together.
Carnivorous plant growers keep serious records. A Sarracenia might be a named cultivar, a numbered clone, or a seed-grown plant from a specific location. Nepenthes collectors track crosses and sexes. Across the hobby, provenance and clone identity matter, and so does the line between a registered cultivar and a grower’s working code.
These plants also change dramatically with the seasons, through dormancy and the slow shift of pitcher and trap color. Leafolio keeps the genus, the clone, the source, and a photo record of pitchers and traps together, with dormancy and division notes, so the identity of each plant survives every winter.
Not rigid app fields, just the things this community tends to write down. In Leafolio they live with the plant, however much detail you want to add.
Clone names and locality or provenance notes kept with the plant, where keeping them is appropriate.
A photo timeline for each plant, so you can follow pitcher and trap color across the season.
Record dormancy each year, so a winter rest never reads as a lost plant.
Track crosses and seed-grown plants, with both parents on record. Part of Leafolio Premium.
Where each division or plant came from, what you paid, and how it arrived.
Keep water and substrate notes with the plant, the details these genera actually depend on.
Independent organizations and references worth bookmarking. Leafolio has no affiliation with any of them.
The main specialist society and resource for carnivorous plant growers, conservationists, scientists, and educators, with a journal, a seed bank, and cultivar registration in this field. A strong reference for names, culture, and conservation. Leafolio is independent and not affiliated with the International Carnivorous Plant Society.
www.carnivorousplants.org ↗Leafolio is an independent plant collection app and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any society, organization, nursery, or cultivar registration authority mentioned on this page. Links are provided as helpful resources for plant collectors.
