California Carnivores
A Visual Tour
(Part Three)
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| I really really want one of these plants. Peter, the lucky guy, can actually grow Nepenthes villosa just sitting on the counter next to all his other plants. |
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| Peter had this plant labeled as Drosera planchonii, but I've seen it called Drosera macrantha ssp. planchonii. Either way, it's a really cool plant. It's kind of hard to see all the really lanky stalks that comprise the plant. |
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| It's either D. "Marston Dragon" or a big D. binata multifida extrema - either way, it's a really big plant with a whole lotta traps. |
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| I was standing at the other end of this aisle to take the photo of the "Drosera section" of the greenhouse. You can see the side of the Lowland Nepenthes room on the right. |
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| It really caught it on its own. Or at least nobody present would own up to having put the beetle in there... (The lizards in the center left and upper right are fake. So are all the other lizards, spiders, snakes and other lifeforms [except people and plants] that are in these pictures.) |
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| I don't know for sure what species of pygmy sundew these are, but they're really cool. |
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| Peter D'Amato (left) and Craig S. Gardner. (I don't know what the S. is for. :) Peter's a lucky guy - he runs this place so he gets to play with all his plants for a living! The room on the left is the Lowland Nepenthes room - the weather is so nice at the greenhouse Peter has to have a special room to keep it hot and humid enough for his Lowland Nepenthes! You can also see the unidentified Nepenthes in the lower-left corner of this photo. |