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These meat-eating pitcher plants belong to two large families of monocots—the Nepenthaceae (Old World) and Sarraceniaceae (New World).
The pitchers under the Old World clan live high above a tree. Because there is not much of a food source up there, the plant resorts to find an alternative source of nutrients. What it does is to fold the ends of its leaves like a cup and concocts nectar juices and waits daintily for its helpless victims.
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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These beautiful plants are carnivorous. Trapping insects in the sticky liquid that collects inside the pitcher. A digestive mix not unlike what can happen in life. It is not always the most attractive and obvious that is correct. Look a bit deeper and you may find the rot and trap within!
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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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Another selection from my collection of carnivorous plants. This is a pitcher plant - the pitcher on this one is twice the size of the actual plant. Should snare a few insects in the coming weeks. It looks to me like a section through a heart - perhaps that's just me.
just a pun i made up for this pitcher plant. pitcher plants are carnivorous and evolved to form a cup trap for lured insects. the cup is filled with enzymes that will dissolve the drowned insects which will provide nutrition to feed the plant. these plants are now becoming popular garden plants
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.
Wild flowers/plants seen in my local area.
Sarracenia can be evergreen or herbaceous, rhizomatous perennials with rosettes of phyllodes mostly modified into insect-catching tubular pitchers with hooded lids, and solitary, nodding cup-shaped flowers in spring
Sarracenia flava, the yellow pitcherplant,[1] is a carnivorous plant in the family Sarraceniaceae. Like all the Sarraceniaceae, it is native to the New World. Its range extends from southern Alabama, through Florida and Georgia, to the coastal plains of southern Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Populations also exist in the Piedmont and mountains of North Carolina.
Apalachicola National Forest, Liberty County, Florida.
I think the treefrog is pine woods treefrog (Hyla femoralis). If not, it is likely squirrel treefrog (Hyla squirella). Field guides say that they are difficult to tell apart unless caught and the concealed pattern on the inside of the thigh is examined. I did not catch this frog to look for that.
I've read that it is not unusual to find treefrogs inside the pitchers of these plants. I did not put it there.
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. 32413
This carnivorous plant grows along the Southeast Gulf Coast and is classified as "vulnerable." The tall pitchers are lined with little hairs all pointing down. Insects are attracted to its sweet smell and crawl down, but can't crawl back up. The plant grows in extremely poor (and yucky) soils and uses the nutrients from the insects. They also produce some beautiful red flowers. See below. Our beautiful world, pass it on.
Wild flowers/plants seen in my local area.
Sarracenia can be evergreen or herbaceous, rhizomatous perennials with rosettes of phyllodes mostly modified into insect-catching tubular pitchers with hooded lids, and solitary, nodding cup-shaped flowers in spring
The picture shows a crab spider with prey on the female flower stalks of Nepenthes pervillei. This spider lives in a commensal relationship with this pitcherplant endemic to the Seychelles, and benefits from the plant's ability to attract insects. The crab spider gets hold of the insects either inside the traps or luring close to the pitcher openings. The plant, however, does not get negatively affected by the spider's presence.
You, Pitcher flower, offered up tiny flutes...that could have been
filled with champagne-
but more likely, simply rain...
Now your beauty fades as Autumn nears
and we all change gears
for cascading reds and gold...
In memory, the pleasure you gave will not grow old...Salud...
---Sylvia...Sometimes
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. 19036