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So there I was hopping around in the rain gratefully soaking my green spotted North-American skin after those wretchedly hot, dry days. It was beginning to feel quite uncomfortable and I was afraid it might thus be susceptible to that awful Ranavirus that's been affecting us Amphibians. I don't really think so, though. Due to the dry weather my kin doesn't easily hop from pool to pool and infected areas seem to be 'local' and contained. On the other hand, this rain now...
Well, a Frog's life is full of worries.
Anyway, I hipped my way to a patch of carnivorous plants hoping for a bite to eat.
You know the way it is with extended family meetings... You can see kinships, of course, of Frogs you've not met up with closely before. 'Oh! you must be one of great-uncle Pipiens's like me! and you, I could swear you're a Temporaria! and you over there've just got to be an Arvalis!'
'Shush you!, uncle Pipiens! Can't you see I'm on a quiet look-out for a morsel to eat. I saw a fly entering that Pitcher Plant and am waiting for it to return; then I'll pounce.'
Said I: 'I'm not quite sure whether to address you as Arvalis or Temporaria, Young-un! No doubt a Flickrite will tell us... But you do have a lot to learn. That fly is not going to return because Sarracenia alata has a clever sticky pool of digestive fluids at the bottom of that pitcher, and you - dear Aravlis, if that's who you are - have lost out to a plant! Bye-bye, now, and keep your skin moist and healthy.'
Deep East Texas.
Pinewoods Rose Gentian (Sabatia gentianoides) blooms among Pale Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia alata) in a high quality herbaceous seep on private land.
A few additional images of the Pitcher Plants in my front yard bog garden in Greenville, South Carolina. These are ones that are a bit later blooming.
Sarracenia alata from Tyler County, Texas. Though these carnivorous plants can be considered rare in Texas due to a small number of known occurrences in the state, to me they warrant consideration as uncommon as they can be extremely abundant where they do occur, and several of these sites are well known and easy to view, occurring on public land like the Big Thicket National Preserve and Angelina National Forest.
This one is at Handmaker. There is one in my Alhambra garden too.
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Tecoma stans
Species of tree
"Yellow trumpet flower" redirects here. For Yellow trumpet, see Costus spectabilis. For Yellow trumpets, see Sarracenia alata.
Tecoma stans is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas. Common names include yellow trumpetbush,[3] yellow bells,[3] yellow elder,[3] ginger Thomas.[4] Tecoma stans is the official flower of the United States Virgin Islands and the floral emblem of The Bahamas.
Quick Facts Conservation status, Scientific classification ...
Description
Tecoma stans is a semi-evergreen shrub or small tree, growing up to 10 m (30 ft) tall.[1] It features opposite odd-pinnate green leaves, with 3 to 13 serrate, 8- to 10-cm-long leaflets. The leaflets, glabrous on both sides, have a lanceolate blade 2–10 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, with a long acuminate apex and a wedge-shaped base.
The large, showy, golden yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers are in clusters at the ends of branches. The corolla of the flower is bell- to funnel-shaped, five-lobed (weakly two-lipped), often reddish-veined in the throat and is 3.5 to 8.5 cm long. Flowering takes place from spring to fall, but more profusely from spring to summer.[5][6]
The fruits, narrow capsules, arise from two carpels and are up to 25 cm long. A fruit contains many yellow seeds with membranopus wings; when the fruit opens upon ripening, these seed are spread by the wind (anemochory). The flowers attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.[7] Apart from sexually by seed, Tecoma stans can also be reproduced asexually by stem cuttings.
Habitat
Tecoma stans is native to the Americas. It extends from the southern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Antilles to northern Venezuela, and through the Andes mountain range to northern Argentina. It was introduced in southern Africa, India, and Hawaii. It is evergreen in moist and warmer regions, but is deciduous in more temperate regions that have a pronounced dry season.[8]
Yellow trumpetbush is a ruderal species, readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy, and cleared land and occasionally becoming an invasive weed. It thrives in a wide variety of ecosystems, from high altitude temperate forests and tropical deciduous and evergreen forests, to xerophilous scrub and the intertropical littoral. It quickly colonizes disturbed, rocky, sandy, and cleared fields. The species prefers dry and sunny regions of the coast.
Cultivation
Flowers
Tecoma stans is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates. It is cultivated as an ornamental. They are grown in many parts of the world for their beautiful flowering, to adorn streets and gardens. It can be easily propagated by stem cuttings.
Uses
The wood of Tecoma stans is used in rustic architecture like bahareque, for the construction of furniture and canoes, or as firewood or charcoal. It is a medicinal plant used against diabetes and against diseases of the digestive system, among other uses. The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock.
It is a very potent anti-venom against cobra venom, used by Pakistani old medicine. It is proved to be better than antiserum, the paste of this plant's leaves are applied topically on the cobra bite. Its bio-chemicals bind with the cobra venom enzymes thus effectively inhibiting the venom.[9]
Honey production
Main article: Bees and toxic chemicals
Tecoma stans is unique in that although it is nontoxic itself, the honey from its flowers is poisonous nonetheless.[10][11]
Invasiveness
Tecoma stans has invasive potential and occasionally becomes a weed. The species is considered invasive in Africa (especially South Africa), South America, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. It now presents a significant danger for biodiversity. It competes with local species and can form thick, almost monospecific thickets.
Deep East Texas.
A high quality herbaceous seep explodes with summer color at the base of a hill in a remnant patch of rolling longleaf pine uplands. Pictured here are the Pinewoods Rose Gentian (Sabatia gentianoides), Pale Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia alata), Bog Coneflowers (Rudbeckia scabrifolia), bog buttons (Eriocaulon spp.) and other characteristic flora of herbaceous seeps.
Deep East Texas.
Grass Pink Orchids (Calopogon tuberosus) bloom among carnivorous Pale Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia alata).
Deep East Texas.
The rare Bog Coneflower (Rudbeckia scabrifolia) blooms in profusion in a high quality hillside seep. These impressive plants can reach heights of 6 feet or more. They are limited to extreme eastern Texas and western Louisiana. Here they are restricted to fire-maintained hillside seeps within longleaf pine savannahs. Here they grow among Pale Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia alata) and other flora characteristic of hillside seeps in the West Gulf Coastal Plain. These spectacular communities are disappearing due to land use conversion and the elimination of natural fire regimes.
Sarracenia alata blossoms. This is one of a small group of North American carnivorous Pitcher Plants.
Hasselblad with the 150mm Sonnar T* lens, and Kodak Tmax 100 film. Processed in Xtol 1:1
Moths inside Pale pitcher plant at the large hillside seepage bog, Boykin Springs, Jasper County, May 2013.
Sarracenia alata is also known as the Yellow Trumpet pitcher plant which strikes me as odd since Sarracenia flava is a different species of trumpet shaped pitcher plant and "flava" is latin for yellow. Ironically, some of the most popular forms of this species among carnivorous plant aficionados are the clones that are extremely dark - almost black. The flowers are, however, still pale green to yellowish. Anyway, the flowers are pretty and I'm pleased at how my Sarracenia seem to have responded well to spending their winter in a cold frame that I built to attempt to simulate their needs for a winter in the US southeast US while out here in Colorado.
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I have been planning this shot for weeks now. I finally had a perfect night and drove the 3 hour round trip to take this shot. The carnivorous pitcher plants, Sarracenia alata, are located on the northeast side of the Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas. These pitcher plants grow in wetland savannas which remain wet much of the year. These carnivorous plants have adapted so that insects are trapped and fall into the bottom of the pitcher. Digestive enzymes break the insect down and glands within the plant absorb the nutrients. The shot is a compilation of 177 frames. I used flash and flashlights for one shot to light the foreground. I then took 176 shots at 30 seconds each (1 hour and 28 minutes) to achieve the star trails. The photos were merged used startrails application. The star in the middle of the star circle is polaris, the north star. Please let feedback as this is my first star trails attempt.
Camera: Canon 5D mark ii
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Focal Length: 17mm
ISO: ISO-1600
Exposure Time: 177 frames at 30 seconds each
F-stop: f/5.6
Location: Pitcher Plant Trail, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas
Pale pitcher plants, Pitcher Plant Trail, Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, April 2016
View as you turn into the boardwalk.
Second visit to the Pitcher Plant Trail with the NPSOT group.
The famous "Buttercup Flats" of Desoto National Forest. Globally largest assemblage of Sarracenia spp. This view represents easily less than 1/10 of this single population.
Sarracenia alata var. rubrioperculata. Red lid,Dirk Ventham, Bulbous upper pitcher, strong tall pitchers. (1996) (A1) buds
Carolina Anole (Anolis carolinensis) on a Pale Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia alata)
TEXAS: Jasper Co.
Boykin Springs Recreational Area; Angelina National Forest
Pitcher Plant Bog on gas pipeline easement
15-Apr-2015
31.063495 -94.279479
J.C. Abbott #2728 & K.K. Abbott
Pale pitcher plants, Gus Engeling WMA, Anderson County, June 2016
I went to several bogs with a couple of Texas Parks and Wildlife botanists looking for the rare Eriocaulon koernickianum. Only found around 10.
Eight inches of rain had fallen the night before so there was quite a bit of flooding and the WMA was closed to the general public.
I experimented with lighting on this by incorporating natural light and direct, but diffused on-camera flash lighting. Most mantis are pretty easy to photograph and keep up with, this one was no different. This was also taken during "golden hour" times, so the lighting was pretty cooperative.
Sarracenia alata var. rubrioperculata. Red lid,Dirk Ventham, Bulbous upper pitcher, strong tall pitchers. (1996) (A1) pitcher
Snake-mouth orchid and Pale pitcher plant, Pitcher Plant Trail, Turkey Creek orchid, Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, April 2016
Flower buds of a carnivorous pitcher plant.
These are a few more images of the sign of Spring in my front yard bog garden.
Deep East Texas.
Rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides) and pale pitcher plant (Sarracenia alata) from a wetland pine savanna in the Big Thicket.
Sarracenia alata var. rubrioperculata. Red lid,Dirk Ventham, Bulbous upper pitcher, strong tall pitchers. (1996) (A1) pitcher
For once this week, the sun was out and inviting me to photograph the Pitcher Plants in my front yard bog garden. These images are of Sarracenia alata or Pale Pitcher Plant. They were in bud just a week ago. This is a Gulf Coast species.
Tecoma stans
Species of tree
"Yellow trumpet flower" redirects here. For Yellow trumpet, see Costus spectabilis. For Yellow trumpets, see Sarracenia alata.
Tecoma stans is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas. Common names include yellow trumpetbush, yellow bells, yellow elder, ginger Thomas. Tecoma stans is the official flower of the United States Virgin Islands and the floral emblem of The Bahamas.
Quick Facts Tecoma stans, Conservation status ...
Description
Tecoma stans is a semi-evergreen shrub or small tree, growing up to 10 m (30 ft) tall. It features opposite odd-pinnate green leaves, with 3 to 13 serrate, 8- to 10-cm-long leaflets. The leaflets, glabrous on both sides, have a lanceolate blade 2–10 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, with a long acuminate apex and a wedge-shaped base.
The large, showy, golden yellow, trumpet-shaped flowers are in clusters at the ends of branches. The corolla of the flower is bell- to funnel-shaped, five-lobed (weakly two-lipped), often reddish-veined in the throat and is 3.5 to 8.5 cm long. Flowering takes place from spring to fall, but more profusely from spring to summer.
The fruits, narrow capsules, arise from two carpels and are up to 25 cm long. A fruit contains many yellow seeds with membranopus wings; when the fruit opens upon ripening, these seed are spread by the wind (anemochory). The flowers attract bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Apart from sexually by seed, Tecoma stans can also be reproduced asexually by stem cuttings.
Habitat
Tecoma stans is native to the Americas. It extends from the southern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Antilles to northern Venezuela, and through the Andes mountain range to northern Argentina. It was introduced in southern Africa, India, and Hawaii. It is evergreen in moist and warmer regions, but is deciduous in more temperate regions that have a pronounced dry season.
Yellow trumpetbush is a ruderal species, readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy, and cleared land and occasionally becoming an invasive weed. It thrives in a wide variety of ecosystems, from high altitude temperate forests and tropical deciduous and evergreen forests, to xerophilous scrub and the intertropical littoral. It quickly colonizes disturbed, rocky, sandy, and cleared fields. The species prefers dry and sunny regions of the coast.
Cultivation
Flowers
Tecoma stans is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates. It is cultivated as an ornamental. They are grown in many parts of the world for their beautiful flowering, to adorn streets and gardens. It can be easily propagated by stem cuttings.
Uses
The wood of Tecoma stans is used in rustic architecture like bahareque, for the construction of furniture and canoes, or as firewood or charcoal. It is a medicinal plant used against diabetes and against diseases of the digestive system, among other uses. The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock.
It is a very potent anti-venom against cobra venom, used by Pakistani old medicine. It is proved to be better than antiserum, the paste of this plant's leaves are applied topically on the cobra bite. Its bio-chemicals bind with the cobra venom enzymes thus effectively inhibiting the venom.
Honey production
Main article: Bees and toxic chemicals
Tecoma stans is unique in that although it is nontoxic itself, the honey from its flowers is poisonous nonetheless.
Invasiveness
Tecoma stans has invasive potential and occasionally becomes a weed. The species is considered invasive in Africa (especially South Africa), South America, Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. It now presents a significant danger for biodiversity. It competes with local species and can form thick, almost monospecific thickets.
Carnivorous Plants (Sarraceniaceae family) / October, Habersham Co., Georgia, USA / Copyright ©2013 William Tanneberger - All Rights Reserved.
Pale Pitcherplant (Sarracenia alata)
Rural Habersham Co., GA (Carnivorous Plant Collection)