Congrats on the discovery!I have spent a good deal of time this year traveling with an American Botanist to photograph, discover, and document wild carnivorous plants here in the Cape of South Africa, I have selected a few of my favourite photos that I sent for dropship printing:
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This is a snapshot of the exploration, the most photogenic species if you will
It is hugely rewarding work as I have already discovered a potential new species and am introducing new forms to cultivation thanks to my permit. I will share more photos of this in future!
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Carnivorous plants - Wild and cultivated! (Pic heavy)
- Thread starter Hendre
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I would love to go see pitchers in the wildFinding them in the field was always a cool experience. The Pitcher Plants were very local in specific small areas, and so uncommon that we became familiar with many tiny individual patches or even individual plants.
Sundews grew in great abundance only 20 meters or so from our back deck. They were so tiny that I never noticed them for the first couple of years we summered there! When I discovered them, I was ecstatic.
We also had considerable growth of aquatic Bladderworts in some quiet backwaters. I had this stuff in my fishtanks for years; always tried to observe the capture of Daphnia or copepods by the bladder traps...never saw it happen...
A lot of our sundews are larger, D. regia gets 50cm tall but I have yet to see it!
Bladderworts are neat too
Our Pitchers were easily 30cm tall, but our Sundews were perhaps 2cm tall and only twice that wide. I shudder to think how many I crushed underfoot before noticing them.
Gives me an idea to do carnivorous plants above the water line in a palularium in the future! Like it.
Just a quick update, I have been germinating several species including capensis, spiralis, neocalidonica, venusta and the list goes on.
I introduced 55 forms to tissue culture, so I can propagate en-masse. Had a few germinate, but will be a waiting game!
Exploration wise, I have to wait till July for most of the winter-growing plants to wake up. This will also be when my cultivated specimens of those species punch through the top soil and start growing!
I introduced 55 forms to tissue culture, so I can propagate en-masse. Had a few germinate, but will be a waiting game!
Exploration wise, I have to wait till July for most of the winter-growing plants to wake up. This will also be when my cultivated specimens of those species punch through the top soil and start growing!
Hey guys. 4 years later I am still on this train and ending up with a masters degree in plant biotech. At least have a shrimp tank now. Here are a few pics of the plants I have been growing in the meantime. Nepenthes, roridula, disa (orchid). Stay fishy!
