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 shots. This is a few more photos than I would normally add but I wasn't sure which ones to leave out. Hope you enjoy seeing these plants in their natural habitat.
Firstly, a shot of the habitat of U. dichotoma. You can see many of the purple flowers. This area is a small depression on the side of a walking track in a flora and fauna reserve in the middle of Melbourne suburbia. The water was around 10 cms at its deepest and slowly beginning to dry out as summer approaches-
Next, a shot of U. dichotoma flowers sticking up out of the water-
A picture of a bunch of flowers growing amongst reeds-
Three flowers growing close together-
A nice robust double header-
A flower spike growing up against a Drosera aff. peltata plant-
And finally a double header of Utricularia tenella. If you look carefully you can see Drosera peltata plants in the background. These plants grew in soil that was just moist and not submerged as U. dichotoma prefers. It may pay to take these growing conditions into account when you grow these species yourself.
Also present in this area close by were many plants of D. peltata, D. auriculata, D. aff. peltata, D. whittakerii ssp. aberrans, D. pygmaea and D. glanduligera.
Regards,
Sean.
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 shots. This is a few more photos than I would normally add but I wasn't sure which ones to leave out. Hope you enjoy seeing these plants in their natural habitat.
Firstly, a shot of the habitat of U. dichotoma. You can see many of the purple flowers. This area is a small depression on the side of a walking track in a flora and fauna reserve in the middle of Melbourne suburbia. The water was around 10 cms at its deepest and slowly beginning to dry out as summer approaches-
Next, a shot of U. dichotoma flowers sticking up out of the water-
A picture of a bunch of flowers growing amongst reeds-
Three flowers growing close together-
A nice robust double header-
A flower spike growing up against a Drosera aff. peltata plant-
And finally a double header of Utricularia tenella. If you look carefully you can see Drosera peltata plants in the background. These plants grew in soil that was just moist and not submerged as U. dichotoma prefers. It may pay to take these growing conditions into account when you grow these species yourself.
Also present in this area close by were many plants of D. peltata, D. auriculata, D. aff. peltata, D. whittakerii ssp. aberrans, D. pygmaea and D. glanduligera.
Regards,
Sean.