Sarracenia
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4/27/2021 Moore Farms Botanical Garden, near Lake City, SC
Canon EOS 77D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
© 2021 R. D. Waters
Sarracenia leucophylla, also known as the Crimson Pitcherplant, Purple Trumpet-leaf or White Pitcherplant, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia. Like all the Sarracenia, it is native to North America and this species is endemic to the southeastern United States.
It inhabits moist and low-nutrient longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) savannas, primarily along the Gulf Coast, and generally west of the Apalachicola River on the Florida Panhandle.
This magnificent specimen was seen at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lives for several months trapping insects inside it's long throat. There 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 what are considered to be 'true' pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar. The term 'pitcher plant' generally refers to members of the Nepenthaceae and Sarraceniaceae families. The purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, is the floral emblem of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 19044
I think this is a Sarracenia. It's a pitcher plant, a so-called carnivorous plant, in the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The green and red structure in the lower left is a pitcher. Small animals can fall into the pitcher and are trapped, and absorbed, They help furnish nutrients for the plant. The structure in the photo is a flower. It's upside down, with the sepals on top, and the larger petals below them.
I am pleased to be the curator of a Gallery of photos of pitcher plants, by other photographers.
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Carnivorous Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia sp., from the New Hanover County Arboretum in Wilmington NC. 10 image focus stack.
30 June 2021; 09:00 CDT; Velvia, as shot.
This is a bloom of a Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia Purpurea). Along with being a bug eater (carnivorous), the purple pitcher plant also happens to be a flowering plant. Once they mature, they will produce spectacular flowers each simmer. They will resemble umbrellas perched on tall stems above the poisoned pitchers.
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Taken in the hothouse at our Botanical Gardens. I will be off and on for the next couple of weeks depending on the internet access.
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 what are considered to be "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar.
Wikipedia.
Sarracenia is a genus of carnivorous plants indigenous to the eastern seaboard of the United States, Texas, the Great Lakes area and southern Canada, with most species occurring only in the south-east United State. (wikipedia)
Click image to zoom in on the details of this one! I love the connection and the striped rolled edges.
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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Windows to the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
The Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea), or Northern Pitcher Plant is the only species of pitcher plant in Canada, and one of the 18 species of carnivorous plant species in the country. When in bloom, its nodding, burgundy-coloured flowers are pretty easy to spot in the wild, although its growing conditions are highly specialized. Copyright © Kim Toews/All Rights Reserved.
at the botanical garden.
These little plants are fun to own, but you really have to care for them! Fresh water every day!
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These are mostly, I think, what the article calls "yellow pitcher plants". The Garden is selling 4-5 different kinds of carnivorous plants this week.
I used to think one had to catch flies to feed them and keep them happy, but that's def. not true! They do very nicely on a myriad of minute flying insects, so small that we can hardly see them—which fly in by themselves. I was shown the exo-skeletons surviving on some plants.
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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My carnivorous plants are fat and happy this year since I put them in the garden for the summer. 90% of all carnivorous plants are native to and grown in North Carolina. And recently I’ve found out that there is a huge black market for pitchers. So much so that poachers are making big bucks stealing them and selling them. Now, scientists have found a way to graft cells and grow clone plants which are grown in a lab and sold from … wait for it … China.
On a recent walk among the Pitcher Plants I was content to simply walk and listen to the birds. Most of the Pitcher plants were not in full bloom and I have so many pictures of these unique blooms. It was a good feeling as a photographer to not feel the need to take a picture all the time. I can wait now until the right moment comes along and take time to explore what is really happening around me. It was then that I saw a bee fly to the bloom of this plant and he actually wiggled his way under the folded petals to get to the middle. I was surprised because I didn't think bees would be interested in this kind of plant. I don't know why I had that notion. I hope I can continue to be a lifelong learner in the next phase of my life.
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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Windows to the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
In the carnivorous room at Frederik Meijer Gardens
Helios 44-2 58mm lens
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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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Windows to the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Just looking after my carnivorous plants which I nurture for close-up photography groups and found this wasp sipping the tempting nectar at the lips of the pitcher plants. Any minute he threatened to make a false step but no, in the end he flew out and made good his escape.
A vibrant display of blooming pitcher plants at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. The plant attracts its insect prey with secretions from extrafloral nectaries on the lip of the pitcher leaves, as well as a combination of the leaves' color and scent. Slippery footing at the pitcher's rim, aided in at least one species by a narcotic drug lacing the nectar, causes insects to fall inside, where they die and are digested by the plant with proteases and other enzymes.
I've been fascinated by these carnivorous plants with their colorful "pitchers" but had never seen the plants in bloom.
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Small snail running the gauntlet on one of my pitcher plants which are just coming out of their winter downtime.
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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Une plante insectivore prise aux Mounts Botanical
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A pitcher plant taken at Mounts Botanical Gardens - Florida
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Pitcher plants just recovering from the winter and putting out new growth. They are just starting to catch their insect food which of course has been absent for a few months too.