[DollHead]

All those are nice big tropic pitchers!

[TwistedPrincess]

"I think it must have leant in to pluck out an insect that was floating on the fluid inside, tipped in too far and become wedged and unable to get out."

in other words, the tit was not supported and hung too low? so the picture we are seeing is a tit in plant?

[Zodiak]

Interesting. Wish there were pics of the digestion phases.

[güttsfükk]

Originally Posted by Devil Mantis666 ↗

That one picture you posted is a tropical one and the picture that I posted can be found in the United States.

i noticed that was your location, do you think living in a climate like the uk would be a problem to have plants like these? the flat i live in does get pretty cold cause i have no central heaing at the moment, so i imagine that'd kill the plants every time it got round to winter.

i posted a thread about some giant pitcher plants that were discovered in the phillipines or somewhere like that in the last 2-3years, but i cant track the damn thread down

[DollHead]

Originally Posted by güttsfükk ↗

i noticed that was your location, do you think living in a climate like the uk would be a problem to have plants like these? the flat i live in does get pretty cold cause i have no central heaing at the moment, so i imagine that'd kill the plants every time it got round to winter.

i posted a thread about some giant pitcher plants that were discovered in the phillipines or somewhere like that in the last 2-3years, but i cant track the damn thread down

I was trying to find a picture that I found awhile ago that could fit a man's head in it. Fucking huge and awesome. But I couldn't find that picture XD

I live in northern New Jersey. During the winter, they actually go into a hibernation type thing. When it started getting cold here, we would cover them with hay and then put them in our shed. The tropical pitchers had trouble coming back, but the others came back. So as long as you do that, I don't see a problem with giving it a shot. But I wouldn't go for the pricey tropical pitchers the first time you do it. I'm sure there are plant nurseries in the UK that sells carnivorous plants. All the plants that are native to America and Canada are good with the cold and some are listed in that site right below this.

http://cobraplant.com/index.php?main...924bbbaa4acb1c All these are good with the cold.


That's a red dragon venus fly trap

Staghorn sundew

[DollHead]

Perfect! http://www.easycarnivores.co.uk/shop/ that sites looks good and it's in the UK in case you do decide you wanna try but you can't find any nurseries that have decent ones.

[Faline]

[Sharon]

Wow! I'd never have imagined that would happen, thanks for sharing

[TwistedPrincess]

the picture of the animal on the plant devilmantis posted.... i thouight the poor animal was stuck there and was going to die a terrible death as the plant slowly devoured it with its digestive juices. upon further investigation i found out otherwise, LOL!

Tropical pitcher plants are among the planet’s stranger species, digesting ants and other insects that slip and fall into their bowls.

But Nepenthes lowii, a pitcher plant found in Borneo, is stranger still. It gets its nutrition not from insects but from tree shrews, which use the plant as a toilet.

Jonathan A. Moran of Royal Roads University in British Columbia, Charles M. Clarke of Monash University in Malaysia and colleagues describe this “novel nitrogen sequestration strategy” in a paper in Biology Letters. Using isotopic analysis, they estimate that shrew feces deposited in N. lowii’s pitchers are a significant source of nitrogen for the plants.

N. lowii is found at higher elevations where ants and other insects are less abundant, said Dr. Moran, who has studied pitcher plants for two decades. In its immature stage, the plant grows a bowl that is near the ground and makes do with the few ants available. “When you start small, you have to catch something,” Dr. Moran said.

But the mature plant grows pitchers that are in the air. Tree shrews visit the plants to eat nectar that oozes from the bowl’s open lid, positioning themselves directly over the bowl. “Form follows function,” Dr. Moran said. N. lowii’s bowls “even look like toilets,” he added, “though we were too polite to say that in the paper.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/sc...obpitcher.html