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I had been looking for catnip seeds for a long time, and finally found them at Waterstones. So time to grow catnip, venus flytraps and bonsai trees
This macro shot of a cluster of Venus Flytraps nears abstraction with traps in front of my lens helping to blur the whole image.
This photo is one of my mom's favorite images.
These plants were propagated by students learning tissue culture and overwintered in my garage. I also kept a few praying mantis egg cases in there. A lot of the baby mantises ended up becoming flytrap food.
see the trap in the middle?
see how something's in the trap?
it's a fly with his head sticking out of it.
(he was already dead.)
While we were at Lake Waccamaw State Park, we were walked through the park and we saw Venus Flytraps. We did took pictures of it, but I say "oh, a cute little venus flytraps down here". However, my professor told me and other students that venus flytraps are common found in coastal NC only, but not everywhere else where you can see it. We were amazing of what she says about that carnivorous plant who eats flies. That plant is really special.
venus flytrap (dionaea muscipula) - chomp!, a special exhibit on carnivorous plants
the conservatory of flowers, originally opened in 1897 (and reopened in 2003) is the oldest public conservatory in the western hemisphere
In addition to starting with tissue culture plants, we also started our own stage 1 tissue cultures from surface-sterilized seeds. The tricky part is getting sterile plant tissue for cultures, and since the seed coat is a pretty tough protective layer it's easier to start with seeds than tissue. We sterilized them in a variety of ways using alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, and bleach. Almost all of our seeds have germinated.
My flytrap at work is starting to get some reddish tones after getting more light. It's under this 3W LED light bulb on a timer:
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Dionaea muscipula
The flytrap range is decreasing. They now occur in just the 16 orange counties highlighted above. Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Although he thought his nickname of “Tone” was affectation from his mates, it was more an indictment of his inability to tell one note from the other, not that they would ever burst his bubble with that home truth, they were mates after all. It came as some considerable surprise when Tony announced to his friends, via social networking and bush telegraph that he had formed a new musical act and that he was to be the conductor; a chorale of insectivorous plants, no less.
It became apparent to all guests invited to the combination dress rehearsal and sausage sizzle that Tone must have stopped taking his medication as the deafening silence in the backyard amphitheatre during the crescendo of “Bohemian Rhapsody” suggested the perfectly harmonising voices Tone was conducting existed only in his head. This was made all the more awkward given the vocal argument he had with the soprano Venus Flytrap, and the apparent bickering in the Sundew section prior to the key change. Still, they were mates, and mates support mates.
Tone’s mates offered their condolences and unrestricted use of the ute’s sound system and refrigerated esky in the wrap up after the unsuccessful pitch to a visiting talent scout, who reasoned, quite rightly, that vegetables had no place performing at the footy grand final that or any other year.” - Biography by wonko