jamesp
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2013 6:14:01 GMT -5
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Post by Pat on May 7, 2013 10:00:34 GMT -5
;D Watch your fingers! ;D ;D
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Post by helens on May 7, 2013 13:47:41 GMT -5
Those are just beautiful, as always!!!
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 14:07:50 GMT -5
Dude how fun is that?? Thanks for the pix. Do you have this species? Macrophyllium sapiaphagious (cv Audrey II)  |
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Post by jamesp on May 7, 2013 18:32:22 GMT -5
Never seen it.Looks like it has lips.How does it feed?
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Post by helens on May 8, 2013 8:52:40 GMT -5
Whoa! The little shop of horrors plant!!! Love it!! Is it real?!
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2013 16:09:02 GMT -5
Jim, I guess you have to watch the video on one feeding.
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Post by jamesp on May 8, 2013 19:38:59 GMT -5
I copied and pasted to youtube and could not get it to run Scott.
Macrophyllium sapiaphagious does not exist on google-i sense a hoax,are you messin w/me?
'sapiaphagious' does not register in my latin vocabulary.Perhaps a joke within?Maybe this plant has a set of human teeth,like a sheepshead fish.... Let me call Forest,ole Gump gets me out of a lot of pickles.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2013 21:04:37 GMT -5
I fixed the link to include the video above
Macro - large
phyllium = leafed
sapien = human as in Homo sapien
phagious = eating
Macrophyllium sapiaphagious is the large leafed human eater.
Cultivated variety Audrey II
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Post by jamesp on May 9, 2013 5:01:23 GMT -5
Comprende LMAO.I knew that plant looked familiar.Helen knew what it was.Where can i buy some propagation stock?  |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 10:25:00 GMT -5
I am really good at fake scientific names. Beware! I got lucky with that image though.
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Post by rockpickerforever on May 9, 2013 11:14:30 GMT -5
Ha ha, too funny, Scott! I got that one right off the bat when I saw the photo. Didn't even need to read the name, but that's a good one.
You know, with all the special days - take your kid to work day, bike to work day, boss's day, secretaries day (I know, they call it something more "politically correct" now), etc., do they have a "Take a Politician to Lunch Day"? You could bring Audrey or one of her kin as a gift. Just don't tell the politician that he could be on the menu! Jean
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2013 12:32:07 GMT -5
Thanks Jean!!
Jim are the pitchers feeding yet? I wanna see a pic of the bugz inside? Or video of one falling in!!
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Post by jamesp on May 9, 2013 14:58:12 GMT -5
My plants have started looking at me since i have been dabbling in the political section Jean.LOL
So you put that image together.It worked.i was immediatly suspicious when i saw it.But assumed it was your wealth of knowledge of such you were teaching me something new.
But beingin the Craphaginiousapien var. Maximus family i should have expected that of you.
It is very early.I delivered $700 worth in a plant order today.It has been a cold April so their growth is dragging.So i drain for 3 days wet for one day on cycles to heat the soil up(wet soil typically stays cooler).
It takes a while for them to start feeding.They will soon.Will do.
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Post by bhiatt on May 9, 2013 16:02:50 GMT -5
those are cool looking. For some reason they remind me of a cobra standing straight up. The leaves look like back of a cobra head.
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Post by Simon on May 9, 2013 17:05:18 GMT -5
Those are great, love the pictures.
I have a question for you we have some, ours flower constantly, we can't find out why.
We have 3 different types the standard one that everyone knows, a jug plant, and a sundew. The jug plant has flowered once in 3 years thats in the kitchen. The others are on the window sill in the front room, and they flower constantly all year round as soon as one flower dies another one is growing currently on 4 plants we have 9 flowers.
I think I may have answered my own question.
Simon
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Post by jamesp on May 9, 2013 19:52:29 GMT -5
Let me know your secret Simon.They bloom in early spring once and man that's it!Except sundews,i am not sure about them because they are volunters on the surface of the soil in the pots.
When there is a drought at some lakes in Florida like the 3000 acre Lake Kerr at SAlt Springs sundews cover the 100-500 foot exposed shoreline-hurts your eyes in the bright sun.
I have not heard of suh a bloom rate Simon.Older plants bloom rigorously for sure-but early spring here.
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Post by jamesp on May 9, 2013 21:33:35 GMT -5
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Post by bhiatt on May 9, 2013 22:12:17 GMT -5
cool. I knew I wasnt crazy.  |
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Post by Simon on May 10, 2013 15:37:18 GMT -5
I didn't include the flower heads but you can clearly see the stems in the pictures. I was talking to the boss and she said she doesn't water them as often as she should, (I don't have anything to do with plants have a tendency to cause early demise.) also they all need repotting. The jug plant lives in the kitchen, it's cooler and darker most of the day. The rest are on the front room window sills so are in direct sunlight from about midday onwards. Westarted with 2 plants about 4 years ago, we repotted one plant a couple of years ago into five separate pots, 2 have since died we have to do the other one and the sundew, the constant flowering means the plants don't grow very large leaf areas. We buy the soil for repotting from a carnivorous plant website I've asked them but they don't know either. Anyway here are the fly eaters as the Mrs calls them.          All the pics were there when I started but the last one seems to have disappeared. Simon |
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