https://www.aldrovanda.com/pinguicula-lilacina-etla/

The second site was a wetland that was near a dam. There's supposed to be Drosera peltata (maybe a different species now), Utricularia uliginosa, Utricularia macrorhiza, Utricularia, bifida, and Drosera rotundifolia there, but I was too late for Drosera peltata and didn't see any Utricularia uliginosa so I wasn't able to confirm its presence there. I also didn't see any Utricularia macrorhiza there or in the water at the dam, but I also didn't look very hard for it since I had already seen it at the previous site. Anyways, I only saw carnivorous plants growing in the left half of the wetland for some reason. The area was quite small, probably around 5 square meters. 

The first plant I saw was bifida, and I actually noticed the stolons first even though there were plenty of flowering specimens. I'm rather embarrassed to admit that it took me around 20 minutes to find Drosera rotundifolia despite there being plenty of them. I think the main thing that threw me off was that there weren't any clumps of plants. They mostly grew as individual plants with the occasional 2 or 3 plants growing together, and weren't the bright red I am used to seeing when looking at wild rotundifolia. After a lot of effort searching, I was able to see a flower stalk and follow it to find a rosette half-hidden by grass. The plants here also weren't very vigorous, having a lot of spindly green leaves. There was some construction going on a little distance away to repair the path and fix part of the dam, but it was downstream so hopefully it doesn't affect the plants. 

I would definitely want to return to this site in the future to look for tuberous Drosera and check for Utricularia uliginosa. 

In the last part of our Australia trilogy in 2001, we find many carnivorous plants with Kirstie Wulf and Greg Bourke near Sydney and in the Blue Mountains. We look for more sundews and bladderworts with Trevor Hannam in Cairns and film Drosera schizandra in the jungle of Mount Bartle Frere. In Port Douglas, we are invited by Helen and Michael Gabour to the great blues events at the Court House Hotel, dive on the Barrier Reef and encounter more carnivores and an impressive stick insect near Cape Tribulation. In the CP-paradise of the Kimberley near Kununurra, we film many plants and two bug-plant-mutualisms including a sundew with unusual characteristics, which we are delighted to find in cultivation on our return to Germany. We show it to an expert and Dr. Jan Schlauer explains the unique characteristics of the plant in an interview at the end of June. In December 2001, he describes the new species in Carnivorous Plant Newsletter as Drosera hartmeyerorum. This film offers an hour of exciting adventures on the successful search for carnivorous plants in Australia. It doesn't get much more adventurous than this!

The photos below really demonstrate why many of us will be hooked on pitcher plants till the day we die. There isn't just one S. leucophylla alba out there, but there are hundreds of thousands of individuals, and just like humans, each individual is special and unique. Even regular leucophyllas out there are bright white. Let's say that theoretically, one becomes bored because they've seen and grown 1000's of different clones of every species and variety. Well, then there's the path to hybridization,which probably takes at least 2-3 lifetimes to really explore the endless possibilities. In other words, a lifetime isn't enough time to really experience Sarracenias!

all photos below were taken 9/10/13 in northern Baldwin Co, AL:

S. leucophylla var. alba-check out how white the interior of the trap is:

Another S. leucophylla var. alba, this time with nice red "netting" on the outside:

A regular S. leucophylla with heavy "veining." S. leucophylla var. ornata? Shhhh, don't tell Stewart McPherson, hehe Just kidding:

Love how the petiole or trap is skiny on the bottom and fat/symmetical at the top:

Same clone, but view of the back. Look at how white this clone is!

S. leucophylla var. (maybe alba?):

A standard looking clump:

Mildly pink lip-this clone will probably turn darker pink in the next few months:

S. leucophylla var. alba-can you see how no one "var. alba" looks exactly the same?

A shapely reddish-pink clone. These red and pink pigments probably come from historic interbreeding with S. rosea and/or S. "alabamensis" ssp. wherryi:

Lots of white on this clone, with a beautiful contrasting red at the bottom. Nature is a work of art:

Same clone, slightly different angle:

This very adventurous and exciting search for carnivorous plants in Australia in 1995 has been extended with previously unreleased footage compared to the original released DVD in 1995. The adventure begins where our 1st tour ended in 1991, at the Lowries' home in Perth, with a lecture on Devil's Claws. Together we fly to Broome and drive with Sue Giesen's off-road bus towards Derby, always on the lookout for Byblis, sundews and bladderworts.

In Derby we start with a small plane to Beverley Springs (today Charnley River Station), a wonderful CP-paradise. Then we continue to Halls Creek, where Sue Giesen is waiting with her bus. We fly over the pristine Bungle Bungles with a helicopter and then continue to Kununurra. There, the Lowries unexpectedly decide to travel on alone, so we are now on our own, which turns out to be a stroke of luck for our CP-search. We are the first to discover both the spider leg sundew, named after the Hartmeyers six years later, and the bug-plant symbioses on Byblis filifolia and various large sundews, previously unknown in tropical northern Australia, which we first published in the ACPS Journal in 1996.

Then we continue to Darwin. During excursions to Howard Springs and the "Cathedrals of the North", enormous termite mounds, we discover more sundews populated by bugs as well as bladderworts. After a successful week, we fly on to Cairns for diving and snorkeling on the Barrier Reef and make excursions into the world's oldest rainforest. In Cairns we meet Trevor Hannam, president of the North Queensland Carnivorous Plant Society, who leads us on an adventurous trip to the only known pitcher plant in Australia at that time, Nepenthes mirabilis. There our film ends, which will be continued in a few months with our 3rd Australia movie "Fleischimania".

Menyanthes trifoliata

Comarum palustre

Drosera rotundifolia

Drosera angica

D. x obovata

A couple of days ago Stewart McPherson and I visited a site in Wareham Forest, Dorset, UK; which we have known about for a few years. I hadn't visited for about 3 years but it was good to see that the Forestry Commision hadn't removed all of the 'alien' plants. One very rare native (non-CP) species which I didn't find this time was the Marsh Gentian, with its stunning electric blue flowers.

Anyway, here are the pictures

Drosera intermedia is very abundant here. D. rotundifolia is also found here, as is the hybrid between the two, D. x beleziana

Some plants were growing stalks because of the high water table

And now for the 'aliens'

Sarracenia purpurea s.sp. purpurea has grown here for many years, with possibly 500 or so plants present

And finally, Stew amid the Sarracenia. As you can see they are slowly spreading

If anyone should want to visit the site, please PM me for details.

Cheers

Andy

The stream that cuts through the valley comes directly from the glacier, and creates these swamps, full of sphagnum, I have looked carefully for sundew but have not seen any...

However, there were a lot of pinguicula at the edge of the creek too ...

During my last trip to Madagascar, a couple of months ago, I had the chance to see a few large populations of Nepenthes madagascariensis, in dryish areas, on sand and close to a river.

This images are from the first population. The soil seemed really dry, but water could be found a few cm below the surface.

Female flowers

... and male flowers

A small Drosera was also growing there

A huge specimen of N. madagascariensis growing on sand, a few km after

And another, "greener" population growing along a small river with plenty of water

Drosera madagascariensis on the Itremo mountains, in the centre of the island

And at the same site plenty of this small Utricularia

Regards,

Giuseppe

I went for a walk with my girlfriend onto my local common yesterday looking for Drosera rotundifolia. I was lucky enough to find them infact when I got my eye in they were everywhere!

Also enjoyed finding the bog asphodel and bog heather, and the common lizards were out which also was a welcome sight.

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I also uploaded the picture to 中国植物图像库(Plant Photo Bank of China,PPBC)

http://ppbc.iplant.cn/album/670D79FF7CB5603E

The plant was found at two addresses, and this is one of them.

Shilihe River National Wetland Park, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, China

There seems to be no pollution here, and the air is very fresh.

Utricularia vulgaris

Recently I had the opportunity to travel to the USA to see sarracenias in situ. I would love to share some photos with all of you.

My First location was Greenville Co. in South Carolina.

Thank you very much !

Gustavo

This Monday me with my friend visited the small bog near the Minsk. Unfortunately, there are only Drosera rotundifolia and nothing more of other carnivorous plants. Seems that they started growing from hibernacula quite recently. They are veeery small and partially are inside the sphagnum moss.

General view of the sunny open space of the bog:

TDS:

And a lot of plants:

at this link of Italian CP Society website - https://www.aipcnet.it/carnivorous-docs/ - you can find and download, in addition to some interesting Pdf-English version of some articles published on our journal, the following "Special Issues", numbers of our newsletter completely devoted to one subject:

 - “The Mexican Pinguicula” - by Gabriele Basso

- “The Drosera petiolaris complex” - by Maurizio Saroldi

- “A tour of the Venezuelan Gran Sabana and some of its Tepuis” -by Andy Smith

- “Carnivorous field trip in Abruzzo” – by Gabriele Basso

- And the new “Expedition to Western Australia” – by Boaz Ng

Here some pictures from the new PDF “Expedition to Western Australia”.

Maurizio Saroldi, AIPC Editor

Interestingly, in an area about 1 kilometre long by 100 metres wide (between canopied woodland forest and wet season inundated ground) it almost carpeted the ground and was the only Drosera present.

Habitat: generally open area with very little or no canopy, soil a sandy loam with lateritic gravel sometimes with scattered larger lateritic rocks.

We explored a few sites within the New Forest

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Continuing with the chronicle of my trip through the southeast of the USA, second location was Baldwin co. in Alabama, to pay a visit to the famous Splinter Hill Bog.
It was the beginning of April and the bog although lacking the exuberance of summer or autumn, had the discreet charm of the first spring pitchers of which some of us are devoted, and of course flowers.

Recent controlled burn.

Thanks to some fellow local aficionados, we were able to discover a  meadow between long leaf pines, where controlled burning had not taken place. Here  leuco pitchers  were bigger.

Thank you very much!

Gustavo