Pic of the Day

[Wire Man]

That's a tasty nutans.

 

[bluemax]

'Hope everyone's not sick of my D. aliciae.

I really like that shot of the D. prolifera.

 

[mass]

I'm not. Next to adelae I think aliciae is one of the most underrated..

 

[Kinjie]

N. lowii x truncata

 

[bluemax]

Such vibrant color! 'Nice plant, Kinjie.

 

[cp777]

Love that peristome!

 

[Kinjie]

Thanks guys! I really like the colors as well.

 

[brinkerh420]

Decided to give it a shot with a Drosera Capensis Seedling! (I think)

More coming soon!

 

[Sundrew]

Nice color!

 

[RL7836]

First - a little story .... back in June of 2011, I gave away many of my little weedy utrics. About a month ago, I was cleaning around my office tank & found a sealed container which originally housed an experiment (I set up 11 small cups with some special aquatic plant media). Some utrics grew in it, some didn't. Somehow the container got pushed behind my tank & out of view. When I found it, I brought it out to toss in the trash -- but before I did, I glanced inside and I thought I saw small specks of green. Sure enough, one pot had something still clinging to life. I located my original 'key' to what species was in each pot. There were many weedy species in the experiment (U. reniformis, U. bisquamata 'Betty's Bay', U. graminifolia, U. uniflora, U. nephrophylla, U. pubescens, U. blanchetii, U. warburgii & U. geminiloba) - ok not all were 'weedy'. When I read the key, I did a double-take. I looked at the green specks & still wasn't sure. So, I opened up the container, took the green specks and planted them in a small pot of mixed, peat-based media.

Here's the pot today - top view:

... and even more amazing, look what's coming up in the side view:

.... several flower stalks.

Yup - out of all those species, who would have figured that U. pubescens, the cutie with the little peltate leaves, would be the one standing 18 months later? I know it's just me, but I really enjoy seeing the variety of weedy mosses among all those miniature umbrellas popping up everywhere - like a pretend, mini-jungle ...

 

[mass]

That's one of my favorite utrics, simply because of those cute little leaves.
Very nice Ron.

 

[bluemax]

Cool. 'Fun to have something turn up like that just out of the blue. Will we get to see the flowers?

 

[Favian]

My first and only Heli! I'm so proud of myself! its been under my care for 4 months now and this is its new pitcher!

courtesy of Iphone5 & Olloclip Lens

 

[maxima]

Winter is here in Istanbul

 

[Wire Man]

Usually I like Utrics for their flowers, but pubescens has much more interesting leaves than flowers.

 

[mass]

drosos can handle snow? I did not know that..

 

[Wire Man]

Oh yeah, they're from Andalucia, they can take it. I was just over there about a week ago, at the same elevation Drosophyllum occur (I actually went right past a really good site, apparently). It was about 60 during the day and close to freezing at night. Turkey is at nearly the same latitude and on the same body of water, so the climate is almost identical. They're a lot hardier than most would expect.

 

[CreatureTom]

N. Veitchii x Platychila

 

[Kinjie]

This was yesterday.

N. truncata

 

[BioZest]

wow nice growing Kinjie!