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G'Day everyone, I went on a fieldtrip today in the hope of finding some native Australian Utricularias in flower. Ended up finding huge colonies of U. dichotoma and U. tenella both in full flower. It was quite a windy day but the flowers managed to stay still long enough to get a few good...

Hi everybody October 11th was the Fall Event at Meadowview Biological Research Station located near Thornburg, Virginia.  I was accompanied to the event with PFT forum member Cynic81.    I thought I would share some photos from the day. Meadowview, run by director Phil Sheridan, is a...

After waiting about six months I think my N. Doorman's Top has finally acclimated and is doing nice enough to photograph. (Notice the N. aristolochioides x thorellii and N. arostolochioides pitchers in the same shot.) I received the plant back in May or so as a 3-4 cm rosette. Now it's roughly...

Having run out of Nepenthes monographs to spend my hard earned money on, I've had to turn to other natural history books to cure my reading addiction. I just picked up an interesting looking book today. It's written by a pair of biologists (George and Roberta Poinar) who've spent some time...

Not really a question, just an observation... I was doing my watering today and during some close inspection in the highland tank and it seems "spring" has sprung for the plants in the highland chamber. With the days reaching only 70-75*F now, the sphagnum moss is coming back to life (it died...