Botany Field Trip & Carnivorous Plants

[Tindomul]

These are cool!
Found these at a bog we visited today for a Botany Class. Collected them for my Herbarium that I will get graded on. Right now they are all being pressed and dried (such a shame, wish I could have kept some alive).

Drosera sp? Its a sundew, such a pretty yet deadly(to bugs) thing.


A Utricularia sp? Bladder wart, lives underwater and shoots one pretty orchid like yellow flower out of the water.

And this is why they call it bladder wart, cuase it have tons of little bladder that are used to catch tiny aquatic crustaceans.


And finally a way kool!! Sarracenia purporea. This is a Pitcher plant, the bug goes in, in search of food, and will NEVER come out :devil: There are little hairs on the inside of the cup that prevent the bugs from climbing out. They can't fly out cuase they are all wet. That and there is no room.


These are all native to New York

[Phantasm]

I wish I had one of those that worked for slugs!

[justatypn]

Very cool. Sarracenia and fungus gnats zapp those little annoying buggers...great close-up Tindo...

[cb977]

Very cool, Tin!

[eorchids]

Ummmm Tin.....collecting wild carnivorous plants is just plain wrong & ILLEGAL!!!

As a CP grower, it just saddens me to see wild collected carnivorous plants. Just next time, just look at them & enjoy their beauty; DON'T COLLECT THEM!!!.

The sundew is D. Intermedia (which is about to go into dormancy).

The bladderwort, im thinking is U. Inflata (not sure though).

The pitcher plant is S. Purpurea ssp Purpurea.

Again PLEASE DO NOT COLLECT WILD CARNIVOROUS PLANTS!!!

[Tindomul]

Hi, hmmmm didn't know that. I was actually told by my professor who took us there "I want to see these in your collections". So I picked them. Except for the bladder wort. That was growing like a weed.