Croatan Forest

[corky]

real nice thread,thanks for sharing,keep up the good work,i love the sar with the mantis on page 1

 

[elgecko]

No - I actually hadn't seen this thread until just now. We'll need to see what types of waterways are nearby or in the Croatan.

I took a very quick look when I saw this thread.

I did not check rules and regulations about boating on the lakes or anything... It looks to be an additional 3 hours from Merchants Millpond, just to give an idea of the distance it would be...... if i"m going to be traveling that far....

I know you usually are not real excited about packing everything you need on the boat and spending a few days on the water, but I'm seriously thinking of doing the Okefenokee trip again next year.
Would you consider doing that trip?
I'll have to PM you so we do not hijack this thread....

 

[Hamata-Honzo]

Is that a wild fused-tooth THATS unexpected

 

[mcmcnair]

Yea, hamata it is I found that one when wakeboarder, JHT-union, and myself were exploring in Croatan. Its also got a red striped petiole.

 

[Nepenthesis]

Not a single strand of sphagnum?

Nice CPs nevertheless... Is there any sphag at all?

 

[mcmcnair]

Pine next time I go I'll take a bunch of sphagnum pics just for you. I'm planning on visiting nearly every possible Sarracenia site in NC come Spring. I'll take pics of the sphag too while I'm at it.

 

[Wire Man]

I have Croatan Sphagnum photos. Just need to edit them. There's some nice mats of S. compactum there, and carolinianum.

 

[wakeboarder]

I spent the afternoon in the Croatan yesterday and it's amazing that there are still CP's to be seen. The only VFT's around are covered by thick wire grass. I guess they are protected from the frost. Drosera are forming hibernacula.

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[BioZest]

I can't imagine how awesome it would be to see CP's in the wild growing so beautifully. I've had dreams about that. Honestly. The dream was awesome, but it got a little wacky, like when I realized that neps don't grow in RI. And that neps don't have other neps growing in their pitchers off into infinity...although that would be kind of awesome. Anyway love those pics. Sounds like you had a lot of fun.

 

[David F]

Great thread! Thank you!

 

[wakeboarder]

Here's an update with a few photos from a visit to the Croatan a couple of weeks ago.


I love the bug carcass.. I didn't even notice this when I was taking the photo.


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Incredible sphagnum!

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[hcarlton]

Those are some vibrant colors!

 

[wakeboarder]

Yes, everything really colors up in the winter.. especially the sphagnum moss.

 

[mannyherrera]

Great pics, but am I crazy or is that a Mexican Ping of some sort growing in NC?

 

[jlechtm]

Beautiful photos, and a great variety of CP. I've been to Croatan half a dozen times or so but I've never been fortunate enough to have found S. rubra (but, then again, I don't live just outside the borders in New Bern .

 

[mannyherrera]

Are those pumila growing in sphagnum? Very cool. I'm still confused by what appears to be a Mexican Ping in the first set of pics.

 

[lance]

Wow those are some incredible colors!! Interesting Sp. of sphagnum as well...

 

[Hamata-Honzo]

dumb question... how does a specimen of the 'fused tooth' variety happen to just come about in the wild? is that a mutation.... or what?

 

[mcmcnair]

yea its just a chance mutation.

 

[wakeboarder]

Manny,
I don't think the plant you think is a mexican Ping is really a Ping. I don't know what it is..