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Carnivorous plants can flower. I found this very interesting because the flowers are pretty, tall, and oh so stinky! The stink keeps the pollinators away from the deadly pitchers. Cool, right?!
Found in a local garden, Seattle, Washington State, USA
Some of the wonderful and exotic pitcher plants in the Cloud Forest Dome at the Gardens by the Bay, Singapore.
A very delicate Belleek cream pitcher that belonged to my wife's grandmother. No idea when this was made, but we've had it for about 40 years. For 119 pictures in 2019, #47, "fragile". Also for 2019: one photo each day (4/365). Belleek is an Irish porcelain maker. The material is "parian porcelain" and has a slightly iridescent appearance. Belleek is characterized by its thinness.
THIS IS A PITCHER LANT, A LOVELY VARIETY. I COULD NOT GET A CLEARER SHOT AS THIS WAS JUST ABOUT 7 INCHES FROM THE GROUND. IT IS COLORED DARKELY. THANKS TO THOSE WHO VIEW, COMMENT AND FAVE MY PHOTO. THIS WILL BE HIGHLY APPRECIATED. WHEN AN INSECT FALLS INTO THE PITCHER, IT CANNOT GET OUT AND THE PLANT WILL JUST DEVOUR THE FOOS
Here's something different - I keep carnivorous plants for macro practice on courses I run (under normal circumstances). Here one of my pitcher plants has gained a lodger - a spider that sits in the pitcher itself and capitalises on prey which falls into the trap. I read that the relationship benefits both spider and host - the web increases the chance of a catch and the spider drops the remaoins into the pitcher.
Pitcher plants (Sarrancenia) are highly dangerous for insects. They land on the lid of plant where short hairs give them a good foothold, however, when they crawl inside to reach the nectar glands they slip on the smooth inner surface of the pitcher into the pool at the bottom. Downward pointing hairs inside the plant prevent them from crawling out leaving the insect trapped until it dies and is digested.
Wild, still, and quietly carnivorous in the boglands of Maine. Northern Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia purpurea)
ODC-Pitcher, Jug, Ewer or Flagon
Along with this tin punch and brass pitchers is a Spanish clay olla. It gets submerged partly in the soil and you pour water in it. The water slowly seeps through the walls of the olla to water the plants around it. It is an ingenious way to water plants in a desert garden.
Flickr Friday-Old Fashioned..
This is one of my favourite themes. I do like anything old fashioned. I made this into an Old Fashioned Impressionist style painting.
Hotel room washstand before the advent of indoor plumbing.
Shot for Our Daily Challenge :“Getting Organized”
The fine speckled pattern on a small Nepenthes (carnivorous plant) pitcher - this one is just over 1 inch long. HMM (unless you're a fly!)
Another selection from my collection of carnivorous plants. This is a pitcher plant - the pitcher on this one is twice the size of the actual plant. Should snare a few insects in the coming weeks. It looks to me like a section through a heart - perhaps that's just me.
A panoramic composite of some of the tropical Asian pitcher plants I keep at home in a terrarium, the plants are all clones from wild specimens (so that there is zero impact on the wild numbers), the species (from left to right) are Nepenthes glabrata, N. ramispina, N. aristolochioides, N robcantleyi, N. sanguinea (adult), N. spectibilis, N. × hookeriana, N. sanguinea (juvenile), N. fusca, all are tropical highland plants except N. x hookeriana which is a lowland tropical pitcher plant.
Yellow Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia flava) & Long leaf Pine (Pinus palustris) - Eastern North Carolina, USA
Two iconic plants of the south east, the yellow pitcher plant and longleaf pine. Sarracenia flava is restricted to the eastern coast of the US and has lost much of their habitat, the longleaf pine is wider ranging but has also lost much of its habitat, so much that its listed as endangered. The pitcher plant while remaining listed as least concern has lost 97.5% of its habitat mostly to drainage and development. This is a really interesting ecosystem with 4 types of carnivorous plants, the most obvious of them is the yellow pitcher which can grow up to a meter tall, the others are much more diminutive and hidden in the tall grass. I was very lucky to be able to spend a nice chunk of time wandering around this threatened ecosystem with my camera.
This diptych is of the same plant from two angles. Pitcher's thistle (named after Zena Pitcher, a mid-1800's doctor and naturalist in Michigan) is a Great Lakes endemic that is found in dune areas. It's on the Threatened list. This year in Sturgeon Bay I encountered the most plants I have ever seen, which is a great sign.
This bright exotic Pitcher Plant was just one of a few seen in the green-house at Charles Darwin's House at Down, Kent.
I understand this is the Provincial flower of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
If you look closely, you can see a tiny bug crawling across the top of the plant. I didn't see it, until I processed the image.
Thanks for comments and favs :)
Apalachicola National Forest, Liberty County, Florida.
I think the treefrog is pine woods treefrog (Hyla femoralis). If not, it is likely squirrel treefrog (Hyla squirella). Field guides say that they are difficult to tell apart unless caught and the concealed pattern on the inside of the thigh is examined. I did not catch this frog to look for that.
I've read that it is not unusual to find treefrogs inside the pitchers of these plants. I did not put it there.