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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
My carnivorous plants are fat and happy this year since I put them in the garden for the summer. 90% of all carnivorous plants are native to and grown in North Carolina. And recently I’ve found out that there is a huge black market for pitchers. So much so that poachers are making big bucks stealing them and selling them. Now, scientists have found a way to graft cells and grow clone plants which are grown in a lab and sold from … wait for it … China.
……Another ’Also-ran’ for Macro Monday, the handle on a circa 1840 Bacchus jug by Minton. I’ve given this a few extra slides for Sliders Sunday - HSS folks, Alan:-)……
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I don't think I ever saw a pitcher plant until found this one at the Harriet Irving Botanical Garden in Wolfville last week. To help me remember the name, I took a photo of the sign and decided to try blending them together for a different look.
On a recent walk among the Pitcher Plants I was content to simply walk and listen to the birds. Most of the Pitcher plants were not in full bloom and I have so many pictures of these unique blooms. It was a good feeling as a photographer to not feel the need to take a picture all the time. I can wait now until the right moment comes along and take time to explore what is really happening around me. It was then that I saw a bee fly to the bloom of this plant and he actually wiggled his way under the folded petals to get to the middle. I was surprised because I didn't think bees would be interested in this kind of plant. I don't know why I had that notion. I hope I can continue to be a lifelong learner in the next phase of my life.
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In the carnivorous room at Frederik Meijer Gardens
Helios 44-2 58mm lens
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The Nepenthes pitcher plant has numerous species spread across the tropics. This variety is a cross between truncata (Philippines) and ephippiata (Borneo) and is 60mm in diameter and 320mm in length.I like it because like other pitcher plants it demonstrates the remarkable possibilities of leaf evolution — of form, size, pattern, and colour. To get orientated, the original leaf top surface constitutes the inside of the barrel and the leaf edges are fused down the length of the barrel on the left of the image. Artificial illumination is necessary to capture the complexity of the convolutions and colour. The plant hangs under shelter in my Gold Coast home garden and regularly catches an insect or two to satisfy its carnivorous cravings.
"Kingdom: Plantae (Plants) Subkingdom: Embryophyta Division: Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants) Subdivision: Spermatophyta (Seed Plants) Class: Angiosperms (Flowering Plants) Subclass: Monocotyledons (Monocots) Families: Nepenthaceae and Sarraceniaceae - See more at": www.carnivorous--plants.com/pitcher-plant.html#sthash.7jZ...
This ceramic pitcher with a goat head comes frorm the Popoloca community of Los Reyes Metzontla, Puebla Mexico.
Visiting the potters of this isolated town in southern Puebla was a highlight of my visit to Mexico.
This image showcases botanical elegance through its careful composition and atmospheric lighting. The hooded pitcher plants (Sarracenia minor) are arranged in a natural cluster, their sculptural forms and intricate veining highlighted by soft, diffused sunlight. The shallow depth of field gently blurs the background, drawing attention to the plants' graceful curves and translucent textures. Subtle color tones and selective focus create a serene, almost ethereal mood, emphasizing the refined beauty and quiet drama found in nature’s details.
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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 "true" pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants attract and drown their prey with nectar.
Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants have adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic bogs. In 1875 Charles Darwin wrote Insectivorous Plants, the first well-known treatise on carnivorous plants.
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Windows to the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Photo taken in Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
2016/02/26
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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
Just looking after my carnivorous plants which I nurture for close-up photography groups and found this wasp sipping the tempting nectar at the lips of the pitcher plants. Any minute he threatened to make a false step but no, in the end he flew out and made good his escape.