#pitcher plant
Hardwicke’s woolly bats are known to roost inside of pitcher plants. It’s a win-win situation: the bat gets a safe place to sleep while the plant gains nutrients from the bat’s droppings.
Image credit: Merlin Tuttle
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A chubby Alata Pitcher
Left is my Giant Ventrata when I first got her & the right is now! Look at all that growth
March 4, 2020
I gave my nepenthes a huge haircut because she was completely out of hand, stretching out, covered in dying pitches and was just way overdue for a trim. I’m hoping some of the cuttings I saved will take root.
Pitcher Plant Symbiosis
The carnivorous plant Nepenthes rajah has developed a mutualistic relationship with mountain treeshrews.
The treeshrews perch themselves on the rim of the trap and eat the nectar produced on the lid. As it feeds, it defecates into the basin.
Pitcher plants get nutrients from digesting trapped insects, and in this case shrew droppings. This is an adaptation to the nutrient poor soils which they grow in.
Chi'en Lee on Wikipedia Commons
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Pitcher plants are carnivorous, meat-eating plants. These innocuous looking goblet-shaped leaves are filled with digestive fluid. The bright colours, and sweet-smelling nectar attract insects to the rim of the pitcher. This edge is slippery and as the insect crawls along it slides inside. Pointed hairs, and waxy scales which fall off prevent the insect from climbing out. The insect drown and their bodies dissolve and are absorbed by the plan.
Some pitcher plants feed on large prey, including frogs, mice, or even things as large as rats.
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Sarraceniaxexcellens, a naturally occurring American Pitcher Plant hybrid. Plants like this can be found in the southern US swamps and savannas.
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Sarracenia hybrid
A nectar so sweet it would lift you from your feet. Slippery slippery slip and it’ll digest you as a treat!
There are incredible life forms all around us, if you just take a closer look
Thismia Americana, a seemingly insignificant plant that didn’t belong, long gone before anyone could take a closer look.
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“Flycatchers” are finished, I will bring these among other OG’s with me to the art show @theconventphilly on August the 24th: epic event with long time friends John Dyer Baizley & Jeremy Hush & Burlesque of North America (more news on this coming soon!)
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