- Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:13 pm
#115772
Hello!
Yesterday, I took a journey to see S. alata growing in the wild.
First, I went to the Watson Pinelands Preserve, a preserve owned by an elderly woman.
They had AMAZING stands of S. alata.
I've been there before, but I had to go again. The plants were badly affected by the drought, so 90% of the pitchers were brown, but the green ones were stunning!
They had varying levels of red veination, and some looked like S. rubra, others looked like S. oreophila, others looked like S. flava, and others looked like S. alabamensis. Yet, they were all S. alata, because it is in Texas!
I saw the first pings that I have ever seen.
They were probably P. pumilia.
In Big Thicket, the plants had shrubbery grown up around them, so it wasn't as nice.
We even saw snake skeletons.
It was amazing!!!
Thanks for bearing with me!!!
All the pictures are here:
http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/south ... 12386.html
Yesterday, I took a journey to see S. alata growing in the wild.
First, I went to the Watson Pinelands Preserve, a preserve owned by an elderly woman.
They had AMAZING stands of S. alata.
I've been there before, but I had to go again. The plants were badly affected by the drought, so 90% of the pitchers were brown, but the green ones were stunning!
They had varying levels of red veination, and some looked like S. rubra, others looked like S. oreophila, others looked like S. flava, and others looked like S. alabamensis. Yet, they were all S. alata, because it is in Texas!
I saw the first pings that I have ever seen.
They were probably P. pumilia.
In Big Thicket, the plants had shrubbery grown up around them, so it wasn't as nice.
We even saw snake skeletons.
It was amazing!!!
Thanks for bearing with me!!!
All the pictures are here:
http://www.flytrapcare.com/phpBB3/south ... 12386.html
Last edited by bananaman on Tue Aug 09, 2011 2:51 am, edited 10 times in total.