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Nepenthes, also called tropical pitcher plant or monkey cup,
The pitcher plant is a type of plant that eats insects, also called a carnivorous plant. They are rare and unique. Typical plants consume nutrients from the soil, but carnivorous plants are found in nutrient-poor soil. They get their nutrition from insects they "catch," after converting them into a form they can digest or absorb.
The pitcher plant is a carnivorous type of plant that includes several species. It attracts insects to it using the scents of nectar and already-captured dead insects, and once inside, insects cannot escape and drown in a pool of water at the bottom. Instead of getting nutrients from the soil, the pitcher plant uses enzymes to digest the insects for its nutrition. It is located along the east coast of North America, in bogs and other wet locations with acidic soil.
Carnivorous plants have a variety of methods to get prey: pitfall traps (like the pitcher plant), snap traps (like venus flytraps) and flypaper traps (like sundews) are just a few. In North America there are 10 known species in the genus Sarracenia, the pitcher plants. Sarracenia purpurea is probably the most common.
According to the International Carnivorous Plant Society, pitcher plants of the genus Sarracenia are located in the eastern United States, from the southeast and along the coastline up through British Columbia.
Pitcher plants are mostly found in bogs, often in the wettest sections. Although they don't require acidic soil, they are well-adapted to nutrient-poor and acidic dirt. They live in areas that are prone to fires, and can survive fire under some circumstances.
Pitcher plants resemble their name: they look like pitchers. Inside the elongated structure is a pool of water. Decaying insects that have been trapped inside, along with nectar from the "lid," attract flies, beetles, butterflies and other insects to the plant. The plant's flowers are the color of raw meat, which further serves to attract flies.
Once inside, many insects find it difficult to exit the structure, so they eventually drown in the liquid. The interior walls are waxy and slippery, and there are hairs toward the top that aid in keeping prey trapped. The plant's enzymes digest the meal and the plant is then able to absorb the nutrients.
While pitcher plants are popular houseplants, it is not a good idea to harvest them from the wild because some species have become extinct this way. Instead, obtain them through a nursery. They are best-suited to bog gardens and indoor terrariums, and they require sunlight and mildly acidic soil.
Some insects and animals live harmoniously with pitcher plants. Some predators, like spiders, use the lid to hide under, and some insect larvae, like mosquitoes, live inside the pitcher plant itself. Ants that die inside the plant are used for their decaying scent to attract other prey. Sometimes small frogs will hide in pitcher plants, eating flies that are attracted to the plant.
Oblong-leaved Sundew hairs which covers the leaves have a sticky blob which glues the insect to the leaf.
A semi abstract rendition of a carnivorous Oblong Leaved Sundew plant (Drosera intermedia) growing in a wetland.
The modified leaves of these carnivorous plants attract and trap insects using sticky red tipped hairs that glisten in the sun (hence the name "Sundew"). Sundews grow in bogs and fens where nitrogen essential for plant growth is typically deficient. The hapless insects once trapped by the plant are digested with enzymes to serve as a source of nitrogen rich nutrition. The modified leaves have a total length (with stalk) of about 1-3 cm. Oblong Leaved Sundew is widely distributed and is native to parts of Europe and the Americas.
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Die Blätter des Sonnentaus haben rote Tentakel mit klebrigen Tropfen, an denen Insekten hängenbleiben, von denen sich der Sonnentau ernährt. Er wächst vorzugsweise in offenen Mooren. In Deutschland ist er geschützt.
Oblong-leaved Sundew hairs which covers the leaves have a sticky blob which glues the insect to the leaf.
Cape Sundew, Drosera capensis (Droseraceae) leaves - traps for insects.
Our friend's collection, Didsbury, England
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Here's the yellow flower of a terrestial bladderwort, Utricularia subulata. Most bladderworts' roots float in the water, but this one is anchored in wet, boggy ground. They're insectivorous; it's not the high-stemmed - awl-shaped (subulata) - flowers that capture small insects but rather bladders nestling in the wet soil.
Here's a Sundew from North America. It has long and slender, erect 'tendrils', filaments covered with tiny hairs or trichomes with globules of sticky exudate at their ends. They serve to trap small insects and also contain digestive enzymes that soon reduce insects to plant nutrients. Then it'll have energy to produce these pretty pink flowers.
Our 'elegant species', as writes Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774-1820), was seen by him near Tuckerton, New Jersey, about 1805. He describes it 1813/1814, too late for Constantine Samuel Raffinesque (1783-1840) to have read it. Usually Raffinesque quotes Pursh if the latter saw a specific plant before he did, but he saw this Drosera around 1803/1804 also in New Jersey and described it in 1808, well before Pursh. Hence its find is attributed to him.
Looking at a pretty cluster of Venus Flytraps in the fine bog for insectivorous plant of the Hortus, I noticed that a Wasp had been captured not very much earlier. In fact, the trap was still slowly closing on the already dead insect. A Flesh Fly alighted to see what it could see, and have a lick or two of terminal waspy body fluids. After a minute or so, it flew off to land right in the middle of another trap. It overstayed its welcome; generally those traps close within about twenty seconds of two or three of its trigger hairs having been touched. The drama unfolded before my eyes; relatively slowly the trap closed and Fly could no longer break loose... If you examine the inset you can see its red left eye looking through the 'bars'. As I left it was still struggling against digestion. An hour or so later all was still.
I've always admired the insectivorous plants of the Hortus. And now they have a much enlarged section. Our Forked Sundew - provenance northern Tasmania - was able to really branch out to almost a meter's height. In an earlier post - www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/27181176293/in/photoli... - I've given a bit of a description of the digestive processes of the mucous-tipped hairs below these pretty flowers.
Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar.
Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs. In 1875 Charles Darwin wrote Insectivorous Plants, the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants.
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'Venus flytrap has modified leaves to trap insects. These are also insectivorous.
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Drosera binata var multifida. The fork leaved sundews are native to Australia. There are forms that branch only once (commonly called the T form), and twice (often called Drosera dichotoma), Forms that branch more than twice are called mutifida or multifida extrema. I believe these are all considered varieties of the same species these days but some people will separate these into different species.
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Sundew flower taken on a walking trail in the Grampians National Park.
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Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive fluid liquid.
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Sundew, Drosera sp. (Droseraceae), insectivorous plant; catches insects with the sticky dew drops on the leaf hairs.
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The Nepenthes villosa on Mt Tambuyukon have a slight elongated appearance compared to those seen on the main trail of Mt Kinabalu. N villosa on Mt Tambuyukon co-occurs with N edwardsiana and it is possible introgression with N edwardsiana has led to this apparent phenotypic difference.
This is cultivar of Sarracenia purpurea that I got from Calen Hall that was labelled Sarracenia purpurea "veinless select ruffly genetics" that I think is living up to its name very nicely. Sarracenia purpurea is a carnivorous pitcher plant native to the US and Canada and is the provincial flower of Newfoundland.
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Drosera helodes is a pygmy sundew from Australia. It is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests tiny insects in the sticky dew it produces on its leaves. This adaptation allows them to grow in nutrient poor soils. The pygmy sundews produce gemmae which are modified buds of tissue that can detach from the parent plant and grow into a new plant that will be a clone of the original.
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Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive fluid liquid.
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This charismatic pitcher plant was first described in 1858 from the Marai Parai plateau near Mt Kinabalu on the island of Borneo. it is known from approximately four extant locations and exhibits slight coloration and morphology differences among its native locations. Mature pitchers are quite large and may reach 20 inches (50cm) in height. At this location, some pitchers were estimated at approximately 30cm in height with vines extending 5m above the ground.
This species bears very strong resemblance to Nepenthes villosa with which it co-occurs on the summit of Mt Tambuyukon.
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Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants appear adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs and rock outcroppings. Charles Darwin wrote Insectivorous Plants, the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants, in 1875. (Wikipedia)
Sarracenia rosea (syn. Sarracenia purpurea venosa var burkii) showing the distinctive pink flower and last season's slightly ragged pitchers . Flowers are generally produced in the spring before new foliage. Sarracenia rosea is native to Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. The differences between Sarracenia rosea and Sarracenia purpurea venosa are subtle and it's status as a separate species is controversial.
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Sarracenia leucophylla is a carnivorous pitcher plant native to the Florida panhandle, and southern portions of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
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Sarracenia x Dainas (or Dana's) Delight is an unofficial Sarracenia cultivar. Daina's Delight was developed by Mark Edwards in the 1990s, and is named after his daughter Daina. The use of the name Dana, derived from a misspelling on labels from the tissue culture lab. It is a complex hybrid of ((S. psittacina x purpurea) x (purpurea x (flava x purpurea)) x leucophylla.
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ready to "catch" any insect that happens to land on its sticky pads.
One of the overlooks along the Blue Ridge Parkway, in North Carolina, USA.
Info on Sundews:
plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/drosera-rotundifolia/
Music for a carnivore in plant's clothing:
After a year of watching puny pitchers on this plant, it has finally sprouted some worthy of the name. I can only put it down to a good summer and good feeding on the numerous flies.
Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia). Growing in bog woodland near Loch Garten. OS grid reference NH981175.
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The larger variant of Sarracenia psittacina is commonly observed in flooded habitats in the few areas where it occurs naturally. These primary localities are Okefenokee Swamp, west central Georgia along the fall line sandhills, and the Florida panhandle - most notably on Eglin Air Force Base.
In almost all natural occurences with habitat unaltered by man, the plants are found floating or associated with deep water in which the plants are not attached to any terra firma. It is unknown if the larger size is an adaptation to this habitat or if this large size has been selected by the habitat. Rarely is the much smaller S psittacina var. psittacina ever observed co-occurring with this larger variant in aquatic habitats.
The Sarracenia rubra and psittacina presented here are part of one of the most unique ecosystems in Georgia - the Fall Line Sandhills. The S rubra plants are believed to be a separate variant based on unique morphometric characters and are believed by some to be the 'ancestral' variant bridging between the S rubra var rubra of the Atlantic coast to the S rubra gulfensis and S rubra var wherryi on the Gulf of Mexico coast.
Unfortunately these variants currently are only names based on morphometric differences. We are still awaiting published genetics data that may add information to better understanding of the relationships between variants of this complex.
Focus on the flower of the insectivorous plant Utricularia unifolia in situ on a mossy and wet embankment, Putumayo, Colombia
The leaf of the D.lusitanicum has abundant sticky glandular hairs.Thanks to that it may catch insects. The poor soils in which they live have no nitrogen so they need to find it using alternate ways, and that way is catching insects.
Late afternoon natural light field stack. 17 shots taken with a 7DmII + reversed Hexanon + extension tubes 40mm at f5.6 and iso 200
Pinguicula Sethos. Fun with photostacking. By merging a photo focused on the flower with one focused on leaves I was able to capture both. You can even see a couple of unlucky gnats that are now plant food.
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Picture for the MacroMondays theme on October 3rd, 2011: My favorite smallest thing.
This lovely small drops are from a sundew at my apartment. It was first introduced by my photography teacher as a great shooting stuff of practicing our macro skills. Then I fall in love with it and raise one of my own. It is my favorite smallest thing. When I see it through my macro lens, I see the power of nature and realize how small I am.
Happy MacroMonday~
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Nepenthes truncata is a carnivorous pitcher plant native to the Philippines.
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The Cobra Lily (Darlingtonia californica) has to be one the coolest plants. Not only does it look like a snake (complete with forked tongue) but it is carnivorous. It can be challenging to grow in cultivation because in nature it prefers to grow along stream banks which keep its roots cool even when the outside air is hot.
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My favorite panoramic of all time.
From an ecological standpoint ANF is likely one of if not the best maintained national forests in the eastern United States. Sadly these lands are a small fraction of what remains of eastern forests in the U.S. not dramatically impacted by humans. If you have never been here, make a trip and enjoy.