Anyone have a pictcure of what D. filiformis looks like during dormancy?

[joossa]

Hi. Does anyone have a picture of a D. filiformis's hibernaculum during dormancy? ...just curious how it looks like.


Thanks.

 

[Drosera36]

Similar to the one on this page. http://www.carnivorousplants.org/seedbank/species/D_intermedia.htm

Google is our friend, too.

-Ben

 

[joossa]

Thanks. I tried seaching BobZ's site, but there was just too many pictures (much faster this way).

 

[Not a Number]

If you had made it to the LACPS meeting, DJ had a few photos of dormant filiformis in the NJ Pine Barrens.

Along with Google BobZ's photo finder is great too:

http://buckeyecarnivores.com/drosera/D_filiformis/D_filiformis_tracyi_hibernaculum.jpg
http://www.sherlock-droserae.com/Up...iliformis_var_tracyi_winter_hibernacula_r.jpg

My NJ Pine Barrens D. filiformis var filiformis has gone dormant, alas I have no digital camera and you'd have to wait until I finish a roll of film and get it developed if you want see what that looks like. I suspect my "Florida Giant" is forming a hibernaculum but it is covered with a pinkish fuzzy fibre that looks like cotton candy and I can't see the growing point. Similar to the fibre in the second photo above.

Hint: On the photofinder let the species page load completely then press control/command-f (find text in page) and enter a search term (e.g. hiber)

 

[joossa]

Thanks!

I suspect my "Florida Giant" is forming a hibernaculum but it is covered with a pinkish fuzzy fibre that looks like cotton candy and I can't see the growing point. Similar to the fibre in the second photo above.

All the growth points on mine have that too!

 

[vft guy in SJ]

Here are a couple other shots of hibernacula forming on my D. filiformis plants...

 

[jimscott]

For perspective, this one was emerging from dormancy. The first time I saw mine go dormant, it was a black mass of dead leaves. I thought I killed it. But in late winter I saw fresh, greenery emerge from that death.