jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2013 15:30:44 GMT -5
These are sarracenias.They are native to the SE US.They are protected.These are hybrids that are not protected.They are mass produced by a process called tissue culture.They grow in wet boggy locations below the fall line,or the beach of the ancient ocean south of mid SC,AL,GA,MS,LA.There are 6-8 varieties that grow in their own territory.When the territories overlap they cross and make a new mix variety.Always in a swamp. I have found hornets,frogs,wasps,ants,moths and a lot of other stuff slowly digesting in it's seductive elixir pool in the bottom of the plant.Hairs pointing down to make esccape difficult,deceptive windows decieving the captured who try to climb thru them only tiring to fall-in the seductive elixir.Nature's cruelty at it's best. It is a perrenial and i trimmed the winter foliage off for the new growth to emerge.The floor of this house will turn into a bizzare color splash of death.No Sevin dust required in this one. The white topped one feeds on moths during full moon nights.The moths see the reflection of the moon on the white top of the plant and comes to it like a street light entering to find-the seductive elixir.The pitchers actually fall over from the weight of the moths-dying to get-to the seductive elixir. The drunken fire ants that are biting me for these photos have hiked in here since i lowered the water 4 days ago.They are moving very slow because they are eating the bugs that drank-the seductive elixir.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 15:34:28 GMT -5
nice. Can you mail order them? I have been wanting a carnivorous plant garden for some time.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2013 15:48:15 GMT -5
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Post by steveo on Jan 21, 2013 15:51:37 GMT -5
That is too cool, but I bet a lot of work.
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Post by helens on Jan 21, 2013 15:55:29 GMT -5
Whoa... those are BEAUTIFUL!!! But... they don't eat ants?
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2013 15:59:48 GMT -5
a fairly passive plant to grow Steve.They grow in such low PH peat weeds rarely visit.The ebb and flow makes watering easy.A hornet nest was built in that house.They kept the plants full.If you fertilize you risk killing them-they do not feed thru their roots.They only drink bugs.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2013 16:04:14 GMT -5
They do eat ants Helen.i interupted dinner when trimming.The ants were drunk,i saved them.
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Post by Sabre52 on Jan 21, 2013 16:13:38 GMT -5
Wow those are really neat plants! Those always remind me of the old horror films based on the book "Day of the Triffids"....Mel
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Post by cardiobill on Jan 21, 2013 16:32:36 GMT -5
They look like like the jack in the pulpits (arisaema triphyllum) we have here in ohio. They grow wild around here
Cool plants Bill
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 21, 2013 16:36:55 GMT -5
We have those in Michigan too. I took these pictures last summer on Lake Huron. They were growing all over the beach behind my daughter. Cool plants. Are these the same as some of yours? Do you own a nursery?
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Post by Pat on Jan 21, 2013 16:51:49 GMT -5
Interesting. Does anything eat them?
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2013 17:35:17 GMT -5
Yes Juggle guy.That is a sarracenia and you have freaked out me and my wife.We never knew they grow that far north.There is no mistake because the bloom verifies the species.And great photo.I do on a nursery now for 20 years-aquatics and carnivores and until recently-bamboo. That may be a (sarracenia) purpurea.I think that plant is a pest that seeds out all over the place.It took over the road side grass in parts of Florida-but Lake Huron?!@?I will perform a taxonomy from your fine photo.Your daughter is an angel,what a cuttie. Guess what Pat,there is a borer that cuts a 1/2 inch hole in them.Eats the foliage.Never has caused much damage at my nursery,but my hobby grower freind says they reap havoc.I can't remeber what it is.He has a like quadriple cross that gets 4,maybe 5 feet tall.It truly belongs in the movie "Day of the Triffids".The plant's name is Lea Wilkerson and Brooks Garcia discovered it.He and i can find the attributes of the plants it is crossed with,and some he is wrong about(we argue on that one).
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Post by Pat on Jan 21, 2013 17:49:11 GMT -5
It seems like everything eats everything --- well, sure, everything must eat. I think! Maybe not minerals, but surely animals and vegetables. Never felt I might get bit by a mineral : )
Your plants are as interesting as your NYSMs : )
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2013 18:01:56 GMT -5
Thanks Pat.I am glad to have introduced you to these characters.I found images of S.Purpurea bloom Juggle Guy.It is what you got up there.The additional 4 petals in the center are delicate and have already dropped in your photo.Photo 8 and 9 are purpureas.The green one looks like yours,the purple is a named hybrid.
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Post by texaswoodie on Jan 21, 2013 19:01:12 GMT -5
Awesome!
Curt
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Post by bhiatt on Jan 21, 2013 19:11:06 GMT -5
Ive always been a fan of the meat eating plants. Very cool looking plants jamesp. I like how you have the floor of your greenhouse.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2013 19:17:15 GMT -5
Lea Wilkerson
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2013 19:20:02 GMT -5
I will take pictures again say June 1.They will be a show then
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jan 21, 2013 19:22:10 GMT -5
When you live in Michigan, anything green is a show this time of year!
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Post by jamesp on Jan 21, 2013 19:35:35 GMT -5
Lake Huron would make up for a rough winter real quick.
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