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That's a really beautiful photo, Mac.
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Hi Levina, Thank You.
My favourite part of the world. Cornwall. The Beach bellow, Perran Sands
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Partridge Pea and Meadow Pink.
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Indian Paintbrush with a bonus Crab Spider, which I didn't see until editing.
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Common Sunflower growing out of an old Cedar stump.
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I just found these pictures of pitcher plants or Jack in the 
ulpit which my mom took behind our house in 1960. I don't know if they count as flowers - they are carnivorous
ulpit which my mom took behind our house in 1960. I don't know if they count as flowers - they are carnivorous
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The bug eating plants?! That is so cool.I just found these pictures of pitcher plants or Jack in the
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There is a national park in Texas that has 4 kinds of carnivorous plants. Actually it is called the Big Thicket National Wildlife Preserve.
The Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas is home to four of the five types of carnivorous plants found in North America: pitcher plants, sundews butterworts and bladderworts. These plants have adapted to thrive in the area's nutrient-poor, boggy soils by supplementing their diet with insects and other small animals. I've never seen butterworts or bladderworts
We walked the Sundew Trail. I was walking along the trail and slightly elevated boardwalk carefully inspecting the ground. Bob got somewhat ahead of me on the path, so when I actually found some sundews, he was out of earshot.
The sundew is a very small plant - often smaller than a dime - which is a flat red rosette with red hairlike glands.
Each gland produces a sticky fluid which acts like flypaper to trap small insects.
Sundew
Sundews
I was thrilled to find them, and got down and took some pictures.The only thing that would make it better would be if I had some object in the picture to show the scale. But I didn't have any money, and in any case I couldn't have retrieved anything I put down there - like car keys. I wouldn't have minded losing a dime, but I wouldn't want to lose the keys.
Sundew
Closeup of a sundew
The Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas is home to four of the five types of carnivorous plants found in North America: pitcher plants, sundews butterworts and bladderworts. These plants have adapted to thrive in the area's nutrient-poor, boggy soils by supplementing their diet with insects and other small animals. I've never seen butterworts or bladderworts
We walked the Sundew Trail. I was walking along the trail and slightly elevated boardwalk carefully inspecting the ground. Bob got somewhat ahead of me on the path, so when I actually found some sundews, he was out of earshot.
The sundew is a very small plant - often smaller than a dime - which is a flat red rosette with red hairlike glands.
Each gland produces a sticky fluid which acts like flypaper to trap small insects.
Sundew
Sundews
I was thrilled to find them, and got down and took some pictures.The only thing that would make it better would be if I had some object in the picture to show the scale. But I didn't have any money, and in any case I couldn't have retrieved anything I put down there - like car keys. I wouldn't have minded losing a dime, but I wouldn't want to lose the keys.
Sundew
Closeup of a sundew
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After I got finished taking the pictures, I went on down the trail and found Bob sitting down waiting for me where he had found some pitcher plants.
So I took some pictures of them too. These are the Pale Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia alata)
Pitcher plants
Pitcher Plants are another one of the four kinds of carnivorous plants that are also on this trail in Big Thicket and are easier to see - they are bigger for one thing. Pitcher plants are passive plants - they lure insects to the mouth of the flower where they slide down into the bottom and can't get out. They don't snap shut on them - they just sit there and wait.
After an insect lands on the lip of the flower and begins to enter the mouth, it comes to a waxy inner surface that causes it to slide down the funnel. Downward pointing hairs lining the lower portion impede their ability to climb back out of the plant’s trap. The bottom of the pitcher is filled with a fluid that drowns them and digests them. Only the insect’s exoskeleton remains.
Pitcher Plant
Pitcher Plant
So I took some pictures of them too. These are the Pale Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia alata)
Pitcher plants
Pitcher Plants are another one of the four kinds of carnivorous plants that are also on this trail in Big Thicket and are easier to see - they are bigger for one thing. Pitcher plants are passive plants - they lure insects to the mouth of the flower where they slide down into the bottom and can't get out. They don't snap shut on them - they just sit there and wait.
After an insect lands on the lip of the flower and begins to enter the mouth, it comes to a waxy inner surface that causes it to slide down the funnel. Downward pointing hairs lining the lower portion impede their ability to climb back out of the plant’s trap. The bottom of the pitcher is filled with a fluid that drowns them and digests them. Only the insect’s exoskeleton remains.
Pitcher Plant
Pitcher Plant
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Fascinating!After I got finished taking the pictures, I went on down the trail and found Bob sitting down waiting for me where he had found some pitcher plants.
So I took some pictures of them too. These are the Pale Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia alata)
Pitcher plants
Pitcher Plants are another one of the four kinds of carnivorous plants that are also on this trail in Big Thicket and are easier to see - they are bigger for one thing. Pitcher plants are passive plants - they lure insects to the mouth of the flower where they slide down into the bottom and can't get out. They don't snap shut on them - they just sit there and wait.
After an insect lands on the lip of the flower and begins to enter the mouth, it comes to a waxy inner surface that causes it to slide down the funnel. Downward pointing hairs lining the lower portion impede their ability to climb back out of the plant’s trap. The bottom of the pitcher is filled with a fluid that drowns them and digests them. Only the insect’s exoskeleton remains.
Pitcher Plant
Pitcher Plant
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