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Pitcher Plant
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Northern Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) AKA: side-saddle flower or huntsman’s cup. It is classified as carnivorous rather than insectivorous because it consumes insects, isopods, mites, spiders, and the occasional small frog. They grow in the wetlands of the Borealis, mainly in the peat bogs, where it can find the acid soil to which it has adapted.
The Northern Pitcher Plant a self-seeding perennial herbaceous plant, some 35 centimeters (14 in.) high, with a single dark wine colored or purple flower and has green tubular, pitcher shaped leaves covered with purplish or bright red veins. The leaves of the pitcher-plant are an efficient insect trap. They naturally hold rain water. The Insects are attracted to the rim of the brightly colored leaves by the sweet odour of the liquid, where they loose their grip on the slippery waxy surface and slide inside. The inside of the leaves is covered with tiny hard hairs that point downwards making it almost impossible for the insects to climb back out. They drown in the liquid at the bottom of the leave and are then slowly digested by the plant’s enzymes, in order to provide nourishment to the plant.
The Pitcher Plant was adopted as the floral emblem of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1954.
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I tried to get a photograph of the picture plant all summer , without success . Yours is very nice except it is not sharp.did you try a macro shot ? My 717 is excellent for macro shots .
Jim
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