nepenthes gracilis
Nepenthes Specialist
Well all my family and I just came back from a trip to our camp in the Adirondack's and we took our canoe out in an acidic pond called Streeter Lake, I have looked at this many a times and never have seen the whole lake. Finally I got to see it today! We took out canoe and in the water where HUGE masses of Utricularia probably U.Vulgaris or U.Inflata or U.Purpurea. Anyhow and along the shoreline was ALL Sphagnum moss lush billowous and FULL of S.Purpurea subsp. Purpurea. I was quite shoacked as I have never been around the lake and seen it, now I know the lake's true beauty. They were very nicely colored and the ebst part is I could pull the boat to the sphagnum shore and look at the pupurea near the water.
Also along the shore are about 20-30 large areas of pure natural peat that was inhabited by overloading masses of D.Intermedia and D.Rotundifolia. It was such a nice trip around the lake!
Throught I would just share all this with you guys as my labor day vacation.