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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 what are considered to be "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. Wikipedia
Probably the best I've seen these fascinating plants.
I think this is a Sarracenia. It's a pitcher plant, a so-called carnivorous plant, in the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The green and red structure in the lower left is a pitcher. Small animals can fall into the pitcher and are trapped, and absorbed, They help furnish nutrients for the plant. The structure in the photo is a flower. It's upside down, with the sepals on top, and the larger petals below them.
I am pleased to be the curator of a Gallery of photos of pitcher plants, by other photographers.
Thanks for looking! Isn't God a great artist?
Tropical Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes sp. (Nepenthaceae) at Oxford Botanical Garden
"The trap contains a fluid of the plant's own production, which may be watery or more viscous, and is used to drown the prey. This fluid contains viscoelastic biopolymers that may be crucial to the retention of insects within the traps of many species. The trapping efficiency of this fluid remains high, even when significantly diluted by water, as inevitably happens in wet conditions.
The lower part of the trap contains glands which absorb nutrients from captured prey. Along the upper inside part of the trap is a slick, waxy coating which makes the escape of its prey nearly impossible. Surrounding the entrance to the trap is a structure called the peristome (the "lip"), which is slippery and often quite colorful, attracting prey, but offering an unsure footing." (Wikipedia)
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 what are considered to be "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar.
Wikipedia.
I really love this pitcher that I treated myself to, last Christmas. It was handmade by the very talented Heather Lake, of MadeMud Pottery Studio in Fort Langley, BC, Canada.
(IG: mademud_pottery)
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I have so many photos I could be posting. Bird photos, flower photos, construction photos, tree photos, I'm so far behind posting I may never get done. So what am I doing posting a photo of pitchers? It was the last thing I photographed today and it was easy to find.
Singha Beer @ Sunset ~ Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, Thailand
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 500, f/5.3, 60mm, 1/1000s
Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of pitcher plant are considered to be "true" pitcher plants and are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown the prey with nectar. Wikipedia
Well, I learned something doing this picture - anything light can reflect light. The cut up pear added a tiny bit of reflected light onto the whole pear.
Lighting - soft box on the left with cut open pear as reflector
Nepenthes "Lady luck". The genus includes about 170 species, and numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. Many are plants of hot, humid, lowland areas, but most are tropical, montane plants, receiving warm days but cool to cold, humid nights year-round. The pitcher starts as a small bud and gradually expands into a globe- or tube-shaped trap. The trap contains a fluid secreted by the plant, which may be watery or more viscous, and is used to drown the prey. The lower part of the trap contains glands that absorb nutrients from captured prey.
at the botanical garden.
These little plants are fun to own, but you really have to care for them! Fresh water every day!
www.thespruce.com/popular-pitcher-plants-5115570
These are mostly, I think, what the article calls "yellow pitcher plants". The Garden is selling 4-5 different kinds of carnivorous plants this week.
I used to think one had to catch flies to feed them and keep them happy, but that's def. not true! They do very nicely on a myriad of minute flying insects, so small that we can hardly see them—which fly in by themselves. I was shown the exo-skeletons surviving on some plants.