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The Pitcher Plant Collection is found in the bog plants area adjacent to the Pond in the Phyllis Bentall Garden.
VanDusen Botanical Garden
Vancouver, BC Canada
Photo credit: Nancy Wong
Photo taken: July 3, 2013
Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. It has been widely assumed that the various sorts of pitfall trap evolved from rolled leaves, with selection pressure favouring more deeply cupped leaves over evolutionary time. However, some pitcher plant genera (such as Nepenthes) are placed within clades consisting mostly of flypaper traps: this indicates that this view may be too simplistic, and some pitchers may have evolved from the common ancestors of today's flypaper traps by loss of mucilage.
In this side view of a mature Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia) flower, the red canopy on top is a set of 5 sepals, and the "umbrella" below is a set of 5 fused styles. The purpose of the styles is to receive the pollen so that the ovary can develop seeds. The pollen is deposited on the upper surface of the styles.
Inside the flower you can see the developing ovary. Around the top of the ovary are the circular scars of the anthers that have fallen off. The horizontal brown streak is where one of the 5 petals had been attached.
I presume that all of the red Sarracenia flowers I saw in the Green Swamp were Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea). I also saw pitchers for Sweet Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia rubra), but I don't recall seeing any in bloom.
Location: The Green Swamp near Wilmington, North Carolina
Borneo: this carnivorous plant traps insects and slowly digsts them in juices which are protected from rain and each stem has a knot in it to stop sap from diluting the killer juice...
All the slightly larger/darker ants seem to have gone the way of the pitcher, leaving the smaller/lighter ants to meander aimlessly about the island.
A new pitcher is on the cusp of opening. I am interested to see if the ants have learned to avoid the pitchers (new pitcher will not fill up so quickly), or they have learned nothing (pitcher will fill quickly).
From a recent trip to Shaken Creek Preserve in Pender County, NC.
There are some elements in this scene I wished were different, but It's not often you get a opportunity like this. So when you do, just point the camera and shoot. Seconds later the froggy jumped disappearing in the tall grass.
Pitcher plant (Nepenthes sp.) found in Mount Hamiguitan Range, San Isidro, Davao Oriental. Taken from Nov 29-Dec 1, 2009)
Pitcher plant (Nepenthes sp.) found in Mount Hamiguitan Range, San Isidro, Davao Oriental. Taken from Nov 29-Dec 1, 2009)
Pitcher plant (Nepenthes sp.) found in Mount Hamiguitan Range, San Isidro, Davao Oriental. Taken from Nov 29-Dec 1, 2009)
The Gulf Sweet Pitcherplant can be found growing as a floating emergent in small streams in the Florida panhandle. At this particular site, the plants grow in a small spring run.
There is a large conservatory (sometimes known as a green house) at the Huntington Gardens in which various species of plants live out their life cycle. This image shows the dessicated remains of a pitcher plant. To me there was something still beautiful and quite elegant in what remained of a once flourishing bloom.
A natural hybrid between the trumpet pitcher plant (S. flava) and the white-topped pitcher plant (S. leucophylla). Santa Rosa Co, FL.
Pitcher plant (Nepenthes sp.) found in Mount Hamiguitan Range, San Isidro, Davao Oriental. Taken from Nov 29-Dec 1, 2009)