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Cowan's mantella is one of the most imperiled amphibian species in Madagascar. It is restricted to microhabitats heavily encroached by farming and other local agriculture. Protection of this species and its habitat relies on local community leaders who routinely monitor the habitats and facilitate outside research visits.
This specific microhabitat was comprised of low nutrient seepage slope which was populated by several species of carnivorous plants and orchids. Truly a very fragile habitat which likely cannot be recreated if damaged or destroyed.
The Australian Pitcher Plant was first observed by European science in 1801 and to this day remains one of many enigmatic plants of Australia. Cephalotus has no direct relation to any of the other four known genera of pitcher plants of the world. Cephalotus follicularis is one of 100+ species of carnivorous or insectivorous plants which inhabit southwestern Australia - home of the greatest concentration of carnivorous plants in the world. It is likely that there are nearly as many species of Drosera (sundews) in soutwestern Australia as there are all species of carnivorous plants worldwide.
Plants in this series are from one of five sites visited for Cephalotus on a trip with Redfern Natural History Expeditions in October 2018. On the trip, we photographed nearly 100 species of carnivorous plants and many additional orchids during 2 weeks of travel in a relatively small area of southwest Australia.
The king of all pitcher plants, Nepenthes rajah is possibly the most legendary of the Nepenthes. First described by Joseph Hooker in 1859 and then illustrated by Spencer St John in 1862 from the Marai Parai plateau adjacent to Mt Kinabalu.
Despite the ornate peristomes, colorations, and unique morphology of other species there is no comparison to observing this species in the wild among the old world tropical pitcher plants.
The pitcher in this photo is quite large and would hold nearly 1.0L of fluid.
The king of all pitcher plants, Nepenthes rajah is possibly the most legendary of the Nepenthes. First described by Joseph Hooker in 1859 and then illustrated by Spencer St John in 1862 from the Marai Parai plateau adjacent to Mt Kinabalu.
Despite the ornate peristomes, colorations, and unique morphology of other species there is no comparison to observing this species in the wild among the old world tropical pitcher plants.
The pitcher in this photo is quite large and would hold nearly 1.0L of fluid.
With the Lego exhibit over and the end of extra fees for members to visit the gardens I returned to visit Butterfly Magic on January 27th.
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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.
This spectacular pitcher plant is photographed in habitat from a location near the type locality. The moss forest in which this plant resides is truly amazing and unique among many habitats that I have observed.
Nepenthes jamban derives the species name from the Bahasa Indonesian word jamban, or toilet.
Sarracenia flava has a lot of color variations. Some are all green. Some are all red.or mostly red. Some are green with a dark blotch at the throat. Some have a copper colored lid. This variety with dark veins is called "ornata" and is from Bullock county Georgia via Calen Hall @pdxpitchers.
#Sarraceniaflava #Sarracenia #flava #ornata #carnivorousplant #insectivorousplant #pitcherplant
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This spectacular pitcher plant is photographed in habitat from a location near the type locality. The moss forest in which this plant resides is truly amazing and unique among many habitats that I have observed.
Nepenthes jamban derives the species name from the Bahasa Indonesian word jamban, or toilet.
The insecitvorous oblong-leaved sundew (Drosera intermedia) waiting for prey in the early evening in a Dorset bog.
It is the super macro practicing time in such a cold and rainy winter day. I brought a new Sundew this morning and started to spend a long time on this tiny lovely plant. It is really a great enjoyment~
又到了超微距的練功時間啦！每年又濕又冷的冬天，我就會去買顆毛氈苔，在家練習超微距的技巧。
這兩天中部下雪，可惜我沒辦法衝合歡山～
~世界山莊, 文山區, 台北市
Vision City Community, Taipei, Taiwan
- ISO 100, F32, 8 sec, 100mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 100mm f/2.8 lens and Super Macro Lens MSN-202
- Shot @ 5.29pm
And this is how this plant extracts the nitrogen
necessary to complete the photosynthesis.In this case it was a Stomorhina lunata that was caught in his gummy "tentacles".The fly was still alive at the moment of the shots (some movements in his proboscid and abdomen) but would die soon . In this moment the digestive glands begin to break down the barrier by producing enzymes that digest later assimilable substances. Finally only the external and empty skeleton content of the insect remains.
Late afternoon natural light field stack . 25 pictures taken with a 7DmkII + reversed Hexanon 40mm + extension tubes at f5.6 ; iso 200 and silver reflector from downside.
Other pictures of the plant in top comments
Pinguicula moctezumae is a butterwort native to Hidalgo and Queretaro, Mexico. Butterworts have sticky, glandular leaves that lure, trap, and digest insects in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition they obtain from the environment.
#Pinguicula_moctezumae #Pinguicula #moctezumae #butterwort #carnivorousplant #insectivorousplant #CUgreenhouse
A legendary pitcher plant, Nepenthes northiana was discovered by the Victorian artist and naturalist Marianne North in the 1870's. North's paintings made in Borneo were the first depictions of this species to modern science.
This is one of a handful of Nepenthes species which are documented to be heavily impacted by overcollection and poaching that continues to this day. This plant is restricted to the region of the Bau limestone formation in Sarawak, Borneo.
Plants from this site exhibit several unusually dark clones including one rhizome of the darkest pitchers I have ever observed. Very robust plants and lots of water at this location.
The Australian Pitcher Plant was first observed by European science in 1801 and to this day remains one of many enigmatic plants of Australia. Cephalotus has no direct relation to any of the other four known genera of pitcher plants of the world. Cephalotus follicularis is one of 100+ species of carnivorous or insectivorous plants which inhabit southwestern Australia - home of the greatest concentration of carnivorous plants in the world. It is likely that there are nearly as many species of Drosera (sundews) in soutwestern Australia as there are all species of carnivorous plants worldwide.
Plants in this series are from one of five sites visited for Cephalotus on a trip with Redfern Natural History Expeditions in October 2018. On the trip, we photographed nearly 100 species of carnivorous plants and many additional orchids during 2 weeks of travel in a relatively small area of southwest Australia.
This spectacular pitcher plant is photographed in habitat from a location near the type locality. The moss forest in which this plant resides is truly amazing and unique among many habitats that I have observed.
Nepenthes jamban derives the species name from the Bahasa Indonesian word jamban, or toilet.
Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants which trap food by means of a pitfall trap built into them through evolutionary design. They can be found in both of the Americas as well as Africa, Asia, and Australia, and usually grow in bogs, marshlands, and areas of waterlogged, acidic soil. Pitcher plants have developed a carnivorous habit to compensate for poor soil nutrition, but they are also capable of absorbing nutrients through their simple root systems. In addition to growing in the wild, pitcher plants are cultivated in many botanical gardens as a form of natural insect control, and can serve the same purpose in the home, as well as being decorative. In botanical gardens, pitcher plants are usually grown in warm, humid indoor environments.
The term “pitcher plant” is an umbrella name for plants in two families, Sarraceiniaceae and Nepenthaceae. In both instances, the leaves of the plants curl in on themselves to form tall, distinctive, “pitchers.” The pitchers are often streaked with red to attract insects, and are lined with fine hairs and grooves so that once insects fall in, they cannot escape. Water collects in the bottom of the pitcher, drowning unwitting insect visitors, and the plant secretes digestive enzymes to extract nutrients from the insects. In some cases, pitcher plants also live in a symbiotic relationship with insects in larval form, allowing the larvae to eat trapped insects and later consuming some of them.
Tropical Pitcher Plants (Nepenthes sp.)
Nepenthes are the pitcher plants of the Old World Tropics with most of them native to the Asian rainforests. These pitcher plants differ from the American pitcher plants in that many of them are lianas, vines growing up into trees, rosettes, or epiphytes growing in the leafy debris caught in tree branches.
There are two classifications of Nepenthes based on the climate in which they grow. Lowland Nepenthes grow in areas below 3000 feet where the days are hot and nights are warm and the humidity is high. Highland Nepenthes grow higher in the mountains (above 3000 feet) where the days are warm and the nights are cool and the rainfall is high. While there are many lowland Nepenthes, the majority of Nepenthes are highland Nepenthes.
This plant has a very unique structure. The pitcher is actually the leaf modified as a trap. The part that looks like a leaf is actually the leaf petiole. The pitcher holds liquid used to drown the insect. The plant actually produces the liquid in the pitchers. This is impressive considering there is one species that will hold up to three quarters of a gallon of liquid in it's pitcher. The pitchers of nepenthes vary in size from 4-5 inches to 12 inches (Nepenthes truncate) to 24 inches (Nepenthes rajah). It has been recorded that a rat was found in the pitcher of Nepenthes rajah. The nepenthes are also unique in that they are similar to bromeliads where some animals, insects and spiders have learned to survive and live in the liquid of the nepenthes. There are mosquitoes and species of frogs that lay their eggs in the liquid of nepenthes and are not affected by the digestive enzymes.
This critically endangered pitcher plant is one of the most charismatic and intriguing species of the genus. The morphology is shared by one other species, Nepenthes klossii, from New Guinea.
Of interest in these photos is that the plants with the very bright light background were perched on the edge of a cliff with a 1km drop immediately behind the plants. Likely the most dangerous place I have ever photographed.
Even with the recent discovery of several giant Nepenthes species in recent years, seeing this plant in its native habitat will likely be the highlight of observing tropical pitcher plants in the wild.
Pinguicula 'Sethos'. I like to think I've helped the folks at the CU greenhouse with their cultivation of carnivorous plants but frankly they do much better with butterworts (Pinguicula) than I ever have and I could clearly learn from them. Pinguicula 'Sethos' is a hybrid of of the Mexican butterworts P. ehlersiae and P. moranensis
#PinguiculaSethos #Pinguicula #Sethos #carnivorousplant #insectivorousplant #CUgreenhouse
Drosera omissa x pulchella. One of the fun things about pygmy Drosera is that the flowers can be almost as large (and in some cases much larger) as the actual plant.
#Droseraomissaxpulchella #Droseraomissa #Droserapulchella #Drosera #PygmySundew #PygmyDrosera #sundew #CarnivorousPlant #InsectivorousPlant #carnivorous #insectivorous #flower #pinkflower #macro #photostack #macrophoto #macrophotography #mygreenhouse
The larger variant of Sarracenia psittacina is commonly observed in flodded 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.
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Many thanks to Jim Fowler for taking time to help me fulfill the dream to see these wonderful places.
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.
#Sarracenia #Daina'sDelight #Dana'sDelight #carnivorousplant #insectivorousplant #pitcherplant #CUgreenhouse
Drosophyllum lusitanicum the Portuguese Dewey Pine is a carnivorous plant native to Spain and Morocco. It catches and digests insects in its sticky dew to compensate for the nutrient poor soils where it grows.
#Drosophyllum_lusitanicum #PortugueseDeweyPine #Drosophyllum #lusitanicum #DeweyPine #carnivorousplant #insectivorousplant #mygreenhouse
the tall stems permit the carnivorous pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea) to get pollinated by the insects that may later fall victim to the pitchers below... Purbeck, Dorset
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.
Sarracenia minor is a carnivorous pitcher plant native to the southeast US. Insects enter the pitcher below the overhanging hood but are likely confused by the translucent "windows" when trying to exit.
#Sarraceniaminor #Sarracenia #minor #carnivorousplant #insectivorousplant #pitcherplant
Small portion of this extensive site in CNF. Sadly a mere remnant of natural area in a national forest heavily impacted by historical industry-centered forestry practices. This site represents successful efforts to recover the historical longleaf pine barrens that were predominant in the region prior to 1900.
This spectacular pitcher plant is photographed in habitat from a location near the type locality. The moss forest in which this plant resides is truly amazing and unique among many habitats that I have observed.
Nepenthes jamban derives the species name from the Bahasa Indonesian word jamban, or toilet.
Nepenthes 'Red Leopard' seems like an odd name for this carnivorous pitcher plant seeing that it is nearly all green. Nepenthes are a vining plant and the pitchers depicted here are upper pitchers. The lower pitchers produced closer to ground level are tubbier and are red spotted - hence the name. Red Leopard is a man made hybrid of Nepenthes maxima and Nepenthes ventricosa.
#NepenthesRedLeopard
#Nepenthes #RedLeopard
#Nepenthesmaxima #Nepenthesventricosa #maxima #ventricosa #Nepentheshybrid #hybrid #pitcherplant #carnivorous #carnivorousplant #insectivorous #insectivorousplant #mygreenhouse
The bogs depicted in these photos are examples of well managed southeastern coastal plain habitats that have nearly disappeared in Georgia. This private property holds the best managed and largest bogs in the state.
Sustainability of these habitats requires 1) marked reduction of tree density; 2) Routine but not excessive application of fire, particularly non-growing season so that plants are not repeatedly weakened; and 3) eliminate alteration of hydrology by not puncturing hardpan commonly a result of deep bedding or furrowing by inappropriate forestry practices.
The three enemies of a healthy bog are excessive trees which draw out tremendous water daily; excessive shade; and diversion of water. Secondarily, increased nutrient flow into the bog from adjacent agricultural influences can increase grass growth resulting in reduction of species diversity. Excessive use of fire is also a problem for bogs in that this selects for more grass and burning recharges nutrients into the bog repeatedly. Winter burns are ecologically preferred as nutrients charged into the bog may leach out during the non-growing winter months resulting in much more nutrient depletion for the growing season. The majority of orchids, carnivorous plants, and other rare herbaceous plants are adapted to and prefer these nutrient poor conditions.
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 S. psittacina in these photos are floating in 3 feet of water with no substrate on the roots. in these habitats, this species commonly achieves 'giant' proportions because of year round contact with water. in these environments the pitchers of this species serve for floatation and the plants are virtually never submerged. Once and if these plants submerge in the floating environment, they will commonly sink and die unless the water covering them completely recedes. note the few pitchers that are underwater.
This site is the northernmost known occurrence of this species.
This variant has now been published as Sarracenia psittacina var. okeefenokeensis based on morphometric characters that appear to be genetically derived. Based on my field observationsof these plants in three distinct habitats throughout the southeast, i agree with this assessment. see McPherson & Schnell, Sarraceniaceae of North America, Redfern 2012.