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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
Interesting other names for this pitcher plant.
purple pitcher-plant
flytrap
sidesaddle plant
Huntsman's cup
frog's britches
Browsing the archives.
One of the tiniest of Maliau's pitcher plants found in heath and upper montane forest. It only grows on the ground.
The smallest frog in Borneo at scarcely over 1 cm in length, a male Matang Narrow-mouthed Frog (Microhyla nepenthicola), perches on the lip of a pitcher plant (Nepenthes ampullaria) where he will entice a female to lay her eggs. These tiny frogs are so far known to breed only in the water-filled chambers of certain pitcher plants, and their small size may be an adaptation for this lifestyle. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
Pitcher plant is a carnivorous wildflower. The pitcher-like leaves collect rainwater and excrete digestive chemicals. When insects attracted to the colored lip of the leaf walk into the structure, they become trapped by the downward pointing hairs, eventually drown, and are digested by bacterial and enzymatic action in the water solution. The northern pitcher plant then absorbs the resulting nutrients.
I love these plants and am trying to keep two of them alive over the winter. They are carnivorous plants, eating bugs, spiders and moths. There was a blue pot sitting behind this pitcher plant. I took this picture last summer.
Feed me, Seymour! A field of carnivorous insect-eating Sarracenia leucophylla (aka 'crimson pitcherplant' or 'white pitcherplant').
Atlanta (Midtown), Georgia, USA.
8 November 2020.
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â–¶ The pitcherplant attracts its insect prey with secretions from extrafloral nectaries [sugar-dense] on the lip of the pitcher leaves, as well as a combination of the leaves' color and scent. Slippery footing from waxy deposits at the pitcher's rim causes insects to fall inside, where they are trapped by coarse downward-pointing hairs, and digested by the plant with proteases and other enzymes.
â–¶ The growth of the pitcher-shaped leaves begins at the end of the flowering period in spring and lasts until late autumn. Variable height, with plants in some localities reaching almost 3 1 /3 feet (1 m).
â–¶ Native to North America, in particular, the southeastern United States. The typical habitat is warm-temperate, found in fens, herb bogs, and seasonally wet grasslands.
â–¶ Considered a vulnerable species due to loss of wetland habitat to development.
— Wikipedia.
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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
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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. 19028
Whitetop Pitcherplant (Sarracenia leucophylla) growing in Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park, Florida.
From the state park's web page:
The Yellow River Marsh Preserve protects one of Florida's last remaining tracts of wet prairie, including the largest community of pitcher plants in the state. The carnivorous plants flourish here, passively trapping insects in specialized tube-shaped leaves and absorbing nutrients from their decomposing prey. The preserve is located in Santa Rosa County on Garcon Point, which separates Escambia Bay from Blackwater Bay. Nearly 20 rare and endangered species of plants and animals make their homes along the bay and its wet prairies, dome swamps, and flatwoods. There are no recreational facilities in the preserve, but the sweeping landscapes of the pitcher plant prairies offer a tremendous opportunity for photography and nature appreciation. A small parking area and public access point are located at the intersection of Dickerson City Road and Garcon Point Road (CR-191).
Sarracenia leucophylla has nodding, brownish-red flowers and clusters of erect, hollow, pitcher-like leaves. Each leaf is colored at top with reddish-purple veins on a white background and topped by an erect, roundish, wavy-edged hood.[5]
It is highly variable with respect to its height, with plants in some localities reaching almost 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height, while in others, plants can be diminutive. A seldom seen 30 centimetres (12 in) tall dwarf form is endemic to Garcon Point in Santa Rosa County, Florida
Fly catching 'flowers' from the pitcher plant. It is amazing how this works but it catches flies and other insects in the cup.
Shot at a friend's place who has a wonderful garden, a greenhouse and plants throughout the living room. Really stunning and a dream to walk through!
I like the title by this song, although a saucer is a kind of plate. Hope you'll forgive me!
Taken hand held
Title is a Pink Floyd song
A couple weeks ago, I posted photos of a pitcher plant flower that was actually in flower with its petals intact. Like most flowers, the petals fall off within a week or two. Sarracenia flowers are rather odd-looking to begin with, and even with their petals gone, the persistent floral parts give it a look of being in flower all summer long. Hold your cursor over the photo to see ID boxes.
This is Sarracenia purpurea from a northern Indiana fen.
I saw two forms of red-flowered Pitcher Plants in the Green Swamp, and I feel certain that this one is Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea). Unlike the other red-flowered form I saw, in this one the petals (beneath the sepals) are dark colored and pinched near the top.
Location: The Green Swamp near Wilmington, North Carolina
Here are the few types of this carnivorous plant called Pitcher plant. Flying or crawling insects are attracted to the cavity formed by the cupped leaf, often by visual lures and nectar bribes. Once in, they just cannot climb out because of the grooved slippery sidewall and get drowned to be gradually dissolved in the liquid (phytotelmata) contained within the pitcher traps.
All these photos were clicked at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park