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#carnivorousplants

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Darlingtonia californica, alternately called "cobra lilly", California pitcher plant and Oregon pitcher plant, is a carnivorous plant that lives in nitrogen poor, serpentine derived bog soils in southwestern Oregon and far northwestern California. Underneath the hood is an opening. Insects enter, attracted by the sweet nectar the plant produces, get trapped by downward pointing hairs, and eventually drown in the pool of water at the base. There, they are broken down by bacteria, freeing up the nutrients in the insects' bodies for use by the plant.

I spotted some growing along the roadside that for some reason I had never noticed before. I pulled a U-turn and stopped to photograph them. There's also a very nice botanical preserve that leads to a spectacular bog full of them right off the roadway.

A surprise find a couple nights ago: the chunkiest pitcher by a large margin on Nepenthes kongkandana that was hiding between the pots. It’s begun transitioning finally to uppers again so they’re getting smaller and slimmer once more, but it definitely showed off with this one.

#nepenthes #nepentheskongkandana #tropicalpitcherplant #pitcherplant #species #carnivorousplants #indochina #strangeplant #botany #rareplants #savagegarden #plants #horticulture #plantsathome #botanical #plantsmakepeoplehappy #bloomscrolling #carltoncarnivores #nature #gardening

Seed harvest 2025 has started for the Venus Flytraps (Zone 7b, Germany). The original plant and divisions all flowered this year (I still let them flower even though I divided them early spring). This will take a few days to weeks as the seed pods stagger their ripening so I am mostly clipping near the edges. This will be the fourth generation from this plant (second and third are in the last picture).

#CarnivorousPlants #florespondence #BloomScrolling #gardening #zone7b #plants @plants

Und hier die Fotos, für die ich extra die weite Reise auf die Nachbarinsel angetreten bin. Hab nämlich vor ein paar Jahren bei Wikipedia gelesen, dass es auf Amrum in den Dünentälern freilebenden Sonnentau geben soll. Das musste ich, als alter Amrumer 🙄, natürlich überprüfen...
Die Pflänzchen sind winzig und sehr unscheinbar, aber dafür gibt es reichlich davon. Scheint alles der rundblättrige Sonnentau zu sein, Drosera rotundifolia.