Mike Lannom's Carnivorous Plants

The purpose of this blog......

The purpose of this blog is to educate the public on
how easy and fun it is to grow and care for
carnivorous plants.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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Carnivorous Plants Defined

car·niv·o·rous

Pronunciation: \kär-ˈni-v(ə-)rəs\

Function: adjective

Etymology: Latin carnivorus, from carn-, caro + -vorus -vorous

Date: 1592

1 : subsisting or feeding on animal tissues
2 of a plant : subsisting on nutrients obtained from the breakdown of animal protoplasm (as of insects)

Sarracenia

Nothing like listening to these guys buzzing in the summer with bugs trying to escape,but can't.

Winter in Tennessee

Sarracenia

My Bog Garden

These guys live outside year round

a lightning bugs last mistake

it wandered too close.......all that is left is its mummified remains.

Native pitcher plants

One of my first projects

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Mike Lannom: Hermitage, Tennessee, United States; I have been digging in the dirt since I was a child on my grandparents farm. I have been a Master Gardener since 1998.I am a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University.

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They never get old

de colors , de colors......

I got a lot comments about the colors

colorful carnivorous plants

Happy to be home

Back from the Fair

Me talking to folks about plants

Tennessee State Fair

after the fair

venus flytrap with a shell of a fly

Worms floating in Pitcher Plants

Worms floating in Pitcher Plants. The one on the left is fresh. The one on the right is older and further along in the digestive process.

Venus flytraps on a corn worm

Flytraps fully enclosed on a corn worm

Follow up for the Blog posting

New addition

New Venus Flytrap

Addition to the family

This is a new addition to my carnivorous collection. This was a good buy in that the pot has three in one. I did have the opportunity to educate the clerk at the garden center.
She didn't know that Venus Flytraps only have two to three shots at catching an insect with their trap and if they don't
the trap fades and dies. The plant will grow a new trap to take
its place. The moral of this story is if you have a Venus Flytrap
let it catch its own food.

Sundew

The Sundew produces tiny pink flowers in a cluster

The Venus Flytrap

Rising high in the background

Sarracenia

The Saracenia is the flower at the lower left

Plant in full Flower

It is interesting to see how the plants put their method of
reproduction(in the form of a flower) high about its trap
mechanism.

Plant Division

Carnivorous plants divide just like iris rhizomes. The rhizome
is divided and as long as it has a growth tip it will grow a new
plant. The Sarracenia seems to be the stronger of the plants
I grow.

Sarracenia

I can never get enough of these...

Sarracenia

— is a genus comprising 8 to 11 species of North American pitcher plants. The genus belongs to the family Sarraceniaceae, which also contain the closely allied genera Darlingtonia and Heliamphora.

— The insects are attracted by a nectar-like secretion on the lip of pitchers, as well as a combination of color and scent. Slippery footing at the pitchers' rim, aided in at least one species by a narcotic drug lacing the nectar, causes insects to fall inside, where they die and are digested by the plant as a nutrient source.

Sarracenia Care and planting

— Sarracenia requires little care once planted.

— It needs moist even stand water.

— Rain water is best or distilled never use tap water it contains too many salts and chemicals.

— Use 3 to 1 ratio of peat moss to river sand

— Sarracenia does like to attract it’s own nutrients in the prey it catches.

— It is best to allow water to drain off or provide a away for it to cycle through.

Plants doing what they do best

Look pretty and eat bugs!!!!!

Nepenthes alata

This guy is tropical so he has to come in this winter

Plant Ingestation

Last year's ingested bugs

UT research gardens at Jackson,TN

Of all the gardens here I find the carnivorous plants.....

The Lazarus project

Raising plants from the dead

References

Carnivorous Plants , by Tony Camilleri .
The Curious World of Carnivorous Plants
A Comprehensive Guide to their Biology and
Cultivation , by Wilhelm Barthlott ,Stefan Porembski ,
Rudiger Seine , Inge Theisen .
Carnivorous Plants of the United States and Canada , by
Donald E. Schnell .
The Savage Garden: cultivating carnivorous plants , by
Peter D'Amato .

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References