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Can I step onto my soapbox for a moment?
When the plant has a sign that says "When you force the Venus Flytrap to close, it kills it. Please Do Not Touch." And then a girl and her mother are putting their fingers in them, saying, "oh, that tickles!" Makes me want to hit them upside the head.
Just because it's a plant, doesn't mean you can touch everything! ESPECIALLY when it says not to! Where's the "Little Shop of Horrors" when you need it?
This tiny Flytrap originated as a leaf pulling from a "UK Sawtooth II" flowering adult. Months later, to my surprise, a flower stalk emerged from the still tiny, seedling-sized flytrap.
Some carnivorous plants native to North Carolina, including the Pitcher Plant and the Venus Flytrap.
This tiny Flytrap originated as a leaf pulling from a "UK Sawtooth II" flowering adult. Months later, to my surprise, a flower stalk emerged from the still tiny, seedling-sized flytrap.
it has taken my venus flytrap many weeks to grow this flower which is perched on top of a very thin stem about 35 cm above the plant.to prevent it eating the insects it needs to pollinate its flowers
I'm not usually one for the macro shots, but I saw this poor little chap rotting away in my Venus Flytrap and felt bad for him. His eyes have gone, and it made me think how horrendous it must be to not have the ability to see. I know one bloke who was in the army during the second world war - he woke up one morning and commented to his mates how the snow had turned pink, and within a few days he could see nothing at all. I met this bloke through my other hobby - amateur radio. He never expressed to me his pain at losing his sight, but instead celebrated the fact that radio had enabled him to be part of such a wide community while sitting at home or in the radio shack at St Dunstans. This was pre-internet and pre-talking computers days.
Technical stuff - this picture was taken using a Canon EOS 10D fitted with 28-80mm lens with just daylight for illumination. The white background is a sheet of white A4 printer paper propped between this part of the plant and the pot in which it is growing. ISO speed 200, shutter 1/45sec and f13 to give good DOF. Camera was hand held.
I cut this flower stalk off my Venus flytrap a few days ago and planted it . If things go as planed I'll have some baby flytraps in two or three weeks.
Visual/Verbal Language
Transformation of Meaning
Spring 2008
Description: Built off of an earlier phase of designing an icon, this phase focuses on seven exercises that transform that icon to create new meanings.
2 -1 Combining the icon with color
The final solution for the color conversion consists of the colors blue, green, and white. Blue and green are both associated with passive and calming characteristics to portray the idea of patience. Patience is a quality that is learned as one grows, which is fitting because green is the symbol for growth. Blue placed within the texture of the flytrap, also represents knowledge, symbolizing the concept created by the transformation of combining a word with our icon. The word chosen is "disclosure" signifying the idea of waiting for answers. White was chosen for the background to resemble innocence and safety of being withheld information.
2 -2 Combining the Icon with another students Icon
To further the concept of patience a popcorn cart was chosen. While the plant is surrounded by popcorn it can only eat the ones that fall into its mouth from above, so it has to wait in anticipation for the next patch of popcorn to be made.
2 - 3 Combining the icon with a word
Disclosure, meaning to reveal, open, make public, was the word combined with the Venus Flytrap. To illustrate the idea of revealing certain letters were brought to the foreground while others were left in the background giving the image a much more three dimensional appearance. This word also plays off of the central function of the opening and closing of the plants leaves. Combining disclosure with an icon of the Venus Flytrap creates the concept of waiting for answer sand deals with the issue of disinformation and lies told from the media.
Growing in one of the glasshouses at the Oxford Botanic Gardens.
The Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests animal prey—mostly insects and arachnids. Its trapping structure is formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves and is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap closes if a different hair is contacted within twenty seconds of the first strike. The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against a waste of energy in trapping objects with no nutritional value.
Blue Butterwort
Many have heard of the carnivorous Venus Flytrap; others may know that Sundews are carnivorous. Butterworts are yet another group of plants that have evolved a carnivorous habit. What they all have in common is that they inhabit nutrient poor soils and supplement their nutrient intake by trapping and digesting insects.
Butterworts have a basal rosette of leaves with specialized glands that produce a sticky substance to trap their prey. Other specialized glands produce enzymes to break down the digestible components of the insects. Flowers are borne on long stalks above the leaves to reduce the chance of ensnaring pollinators. Pretty cool.
Blue butterwort is listed as a "threatened" species in Florida.
Noticed something moving when I took the picture and saw this one had caught a daddy long legs. Yep, our baby trappers are all grow up now and ready to catch their own food! That's a pretty sizable meal.