Basin's carnivorous plants

[coolnweird]

Hope you don't mind me highjacking this thread to show off my carnivorous plants! It's the only thread I found on the topic. Here's a month of growth in my starter bog!

 

[basin79]

Hope you don't mind me highjacking this thread to show off my carnivorous plants! It's the only thread I found on the topic. Here's a month of growth in my starter bog!
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Looking good. Although I'd recommend you do make your own thread though like I did as it allows you to follow things better. As in you can see the progress your plants are making quicker as there'll only be your own pics. And it makes things easier to find too.

 

[basin79]

Pinguicula cyclosecta I got last year has put up the first flower. 2 more growing too.

 

[basin79]

The sticky droplets on the leaves of a Pinguicula cyclosecta are a lot smaller than those of a sundew. However there's loads of them over a large surface so they have no trouble catching flies and the like.

 

[schmiggle]

The sticky droplets on the leaves of a Pinguicula cyclosecta are a lot smaller than those of a sundew. However there's loads of them over a large surface so they have no trouble catching flies and the like.

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Didn't know you grow Pinguicula! Love the close-ups--you really can't tell looking at Pinguicula with naked eyes that it's essentially the same system as Drosersa.

One of these days I'd like to get gypsicola and laueana. I'd also like to see gypsicola in the wild. Had the unexpected pleasure of finding vulgaris near a glacier in Iceland in 2016--really drove home why they're called butterworts.

 

[basin79]

Didn't know you grow Pinguicula! Love the close-ups--you really can't tell looking at Pinguicula with naked eyes that it's essentially the same system as Drosersa.

One of these days I'd like to get gypsicola and laueana. I'd also like to see gypsicola in the wild. Had the unexpected pleasure of finding vulgaris near a glacier in Iceland in 2016--really drove home why they're called butterworts.

Aye you'd think their leaves just had a sticky coating on them by looking yet they're made up of hundreds/thousands of tiny droplets each in their own perch.

 

[basin79]

A fly and her eggs recycled.

 

[basin79]

I noticed that newly emerging flowers of the Pinguicula cyclosecta were covered in the same sticky blobs as the the leaves. Not sure if it's for protection, to catch food or both. Carnivorous plants need pollinators so their flowers end up high up well away from the "danger zone". No point killing what you need. As this flower grows those sticky buds will disappear making the flower safe for any visitors.

 

[schmiggle]

I noticed that newly emerging flowers of the Pinguicula cyclosecta were covered in the same sticky blobs as the the leaves. Not sure if it's for protection, to catch food or both. Carnivorous plants need pollinators so their flowers end up high up well away from the "danger zone". No point killing what you need. As this flower grows those sticky buds will disappear making the flower safe for any visitors.

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I think--but can't easily prove--that the tentacles on the bus are there for developmental reasons, not adaptive ones. As in, all Pinguicula leaves and stems start off with tentacles, but on the flowers they disappear later. It could be for protection early on, however.

 

[basin79]

I think--but can't easily prove--that the tentacles on the bus are there for developmental reasons, not adaptive ones. As in, all Pinguicula leaves and stems start off with tentacles, but on the flowers they disappear later. It could be for protection early on, however.

With them being able to stop the production of carnivorous leaves in winter I thought they'd be able to stop the tentacles on newly emerged flower buds. But then again that's a seasonal change for the plant not just odd parts.

Cheers.

 

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With them being able to stop the production of carnivorous leaves in winter I thought they'd be able to stop the tentacles on newly emerged flower buds. But then again that's a seasonal change for the plant not just odd parts.

Cheers.

Oh I forgot about that--very good point. But are you sure the succulent leaves don't also begin development with tentacles? If not then I'd have to stick with defense mechanism.

 

[basin79]

Oh I forgot about that--very good point. But are you sure the succulent leaves don't also begin development with tentacles? If not then I'd have to stick with defense mechanism.

That's a good point. I don't actually know.

 

[basin79]

More Pinguicula cyclosecta pics. My lens reflecting in the drops in the second pic make them look like frogspawn.

 

[schmiggle]

That's a good point. I don't actually know.

Check when it switches over--now I'm really curious.

 

[basin79]

Check when it switches over--now I'm really curious.

I'll forget.

 

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I'll forget.

Maybe don't

 

[basin79]

Maybe don't

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

 

[basin79]

 

[basin79]

Well the fly's looking a little bit worse for wear now.



New life unfolds. Drosera binata.

 

[basin79]

I think that's nectar.


The flower compared to my hand.


The arrows are pointing to what the first pic is actually of.