Pleurothallis sarracenia

[ronaldhanko]

Originally Posted by Brotherly Monkey

do you get cobra plants in your area?

They do grow in our area, but the plants we were looking for in the "little bog of horrors" were probably not native to that area.

[RosieC]

Those ones really do look slug like curled against the moss like that. Really cool!

[SpeciesNut]

What a awesome plant! thanks for sharing!

[s.kallima]

I'll try to post a picture of my little 'portable' bog as I call it
I read you blog post about the little bog of horror, liked it a lot! Especially the way you describe how you have to walk on the floating mat of sphagnum. I have done that in bogs in France years ago, it is scary if you know how deep of peat moss lies under the floating mat and that you could sink in it very fast... Archaeologists have found very well preserved bodies (due to acidity of peat moss) of prehistoric humans in some bogs in France

[Paul]

Interesting blooms!

[Anisa]

So unusual! Love all that "slug" thing going on. Would it repel real slugs?

[Brotherly Monkey]

Originally Posted by ronaldhanko

They do grow in our area, but the plants we were looking for in the "little bog of horrors" were probably not native to that area.

Sorry, Ron, I just meant in your general area: i didn't know how far north their habitat went

[ronaldhanko]

Originally Posted by Brotherly Monkey

Sorry, Ron, I just meant in your general area: i didn't know how far north their habitat went

They are native to the the two counties south of our county, but the plant in the bog where we looked for them are almost all introduced - even the butterworts and cobra lilies, though both are native to that county.

[ronaldhanko]

Thanks, Rosie, S.Kallima, SpeciesNut, Paul and
Anisa for looking and commenting. We've been gone a couple days, so I'm just now catching up with things.