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Snake-mouth orchid and Pale pitcher plants, Pitcher Plant Trail, Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, April 2016
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.
Pale pitcher plants, Pitcher Plant Trail, Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, April 2016
Sarracenia alata, also known as yellow trumpets, pale pitcher plant or pale trumpet, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia. It is native to North America.
Munich Botanic Garden / greenhouses
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We were out of town this past weekend, when we had a frost. I was not able to cover up the bog garden, but apparently the plants suffered no ill effects. The lighter colored flowers belong to Sarracenia alata or Pale Pitcher Plant. The darker yellow ones are Sarracenia flava or Yellow Pitcher Plant.
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.
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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.
Stone Co, MS. An all red clone selected by Tom Cahill and described in 2006. Very rare in cultivation. It was a seed grown plant selected from many individuals that displayed consistent strong red colors and extreme vigor. You can't tell from the picture, but the pitchers are almost a meter tall, and they can probably get bigger! Under my conditions, the color will become more intense as the fall approaches.
Original description of the cultivar can be found here (goto the bottom of the page): www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Species/v36n2p53_56.html
Pale pitcher plant, Pitcher Plant Trail, Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, April 2016
Giant white-top and Pale pitcher plants, Geraldine Watson Preserve, Warren, Tyler County, April 2016
This was our last NPSOT field trip in the Big Thicket area.
Sarracenia alata var. rubrioperculata. Red lid,Dirk Ventham, Bulbous upper pitcher, strong tall pitchers. (1996) (A1) pitcher
This plant can get solid dark purple to almost black, and is not at its fullest color potential yet. Alatas aren't yet very popular, but interest in them is surging now that breeders realize the potential of these plants!
We were out of town this past weekend, when we had a frost. I was not able to cover up the bog garden, but apparently the plants suffered no ill effects. The lighter colored flowers belong to Sarracenia alata or Pale Pitcher Plant. The darker yellow ones are Sarracenia flava or Yellow Pitcher Plant.
This photograph is of a carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia alata, in-situ at the pitcher plant trail, 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. This photograph was shot with a ring flash.
Camera: Canon 5D mark ii
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro USM
Focal Length: 100mm
ISO: ISO-100
Exposure Time: 1/200 second
F-stop: f/18
Location: Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas
L'insecte est attiré par une secrétion nectarifère et/ou par la couleur vive du sommet du piège, glisse dans le cornet s'ils est trop approché du bord intérieur glissant. Il n'y a aucun mouvement de l'opercule. L'insecte est empêché de remonter par des poils dirigés vers le bas qui se trouvent à l'intérieur du piège. La digestion, selon les espèces, est assurée par des enzymes sécrétées par le plante et/ou une endofaune (bactérie et larves d'insectes) qui se nourrit des proies. Les proies sont principalement des fourmis et des insectes volants. ..Extrait de l'étiquette d'exposition dans la serre des plantes carnivores - jardin botanique henri Gaussen - Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse.
Sarracenia alata var. rubrioperculata. Red lid,Dirk Ventham, Bulbous upper pitcher, strong tall pitchers. (1996) (A1) pitcher
This was my first time to photograph pale pitcher plant. Wish it wasn't so late in the year. For more information: plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=Saal4
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.
This photograph is of a carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia alata, in-situ at the pitcher plant trail, 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. This photograph was shot with a ring flash.
Camera: Canon 5D mark ii
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro USM
Focal Length: 100mm
ISO: ISO-100
Exposure Time: 1/200 second
F-stop: f/22
Location: Turkey Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas
This was my first time to photograph pale pitcher plant. Wish it wasn't so late in the year. For more information: plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=Saal4