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[Loakesy]

I've often wondered whether it is possible for Sarracenia to propagate by stolon growth, but never found any evidence to back it up. On a few occasions I've seen odd little plantlets crop up in unconnected parts of the pot, but always thought they were just extensions of the rhizome.
Here, however, is a plant that I've ignored for the past few years, simply because it does nothing for me and has been left at the back of the greenhouse. I decided to clean it up a bit today to see if it would redeem itself, when I found this:



There's clearly a small plantlet attached to what looks like a piece of root, but clearly not part of the rhizome.

[Aidan]

I guess it depends upon your definition of "stolon"... I've seen similar and think of it as simply a particularly narrow example of a rhizome.

[Blaine Pullin]

The first time I thought I had a sarr seedling in a pot, it turned out to be a stolon or something similar.  It was so far away from the main rhizome, that it looked like a separate plant.   It was definitely not just a growth point on the rhizome.  It was almost one foot away from the adult plant.