danlo Posted January 11, 2009 Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hello all, here are some pics taken just before Christmas of a colony of Drosera pygmaea located on the cliffs at Cape Solander in the Botany Bay National Park on the Kurnell peninsula in Sydney (the offshore platform in the first picture is part of construction for Sydney's new desalination plant). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark.ca Posted January 11, 2009 Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 Nice photos! Realy nice to see pygmys in the wild! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimscott Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 Thanks for sharing the pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 Great pics - thanks for sharing Heather Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Rohrbacher Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 (edited) Hi danlo, this is a very difficult species ... ... for see I didn't saw in the picture two in the first time, I need more strong glasses. Very cute small plants, thanks for sharing. Carlos. Edited January 15, 2009 by Carlos Rohrbacher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davion Posted January 15, 2009 Report Share Posted January 15, 2009 Oom, Soo-Close-to-The-Ocean ... What's The 'Salinity'-of-The-Soil? Any-Ideas? >(*U^)< **** Drosera-pygmaea is My-Second-Favourite-Pygmy after That Occidentalis-Form / Species that Has 'Seemingly' Every-Other Tentacle Absent or 'Knocked' of The Ring or 'Rim' of The Minute-Traps!!!??? Do-Pygmy Tentacles 'Move'-"Faster" When Growing in Salty-Soil??? Remember You'll Have to Boil and Filter-off While-'Still' "Hot" ... in-Order to Appraise-R-True-Reading of Salinity in These Coastal Gley-Podzolic-Soils. Silver-nitrate is-R "Quick" Semi-Quantitative Indicator if-You don't Have access to-R TDS-Truncheon ... and Reasonably-'Powerful if You've already Pre-Calibrated The-Solution against a Small-Set of Known-standards (of-Salinity ie Sodium-chloride) at-Home Before You Set-off to-Coastal-Site. **** Some-of-You 'May'-Remember that Last-Year I-Notice and 'Tried'-to-Draw-Attention to what Appeared-to-Be a Minute or Miniscule Salicornia (SANDFIRE) species Growing alongside Drosera-glanduligera and other species of South-Australian Sundews. Santa-Bought-me >(*U^)< R-Macro-Lens &-R Wide-Converter for Christmas (2000-&-8) so-I Should-be Able to Get-You 'Better' Landscapes and Close-ups This Coming-Season that Begins-HERE in South-Oz around The-Third-Week-of-May ... Though Earlier in WA. I-'Should'-be Able to Get-You Some 'Clear'-Tentacle-Head Shots This-Season ... and it'll-be Interesting to "See' Whether there's anything-'Interesting' about The Rim-Tentacles of the Cup-or-Goblet-Traps of species such as Planchonii (macrantha ssp planchonii for-The-Purists among-You-Plural ... but We-HERE-in-South-Australia Like to think-of-It as Uniquely South-Australian and 'Special' >(*U^)< Similarl to Our Victorian Counterparts that Are Making New-&-Novel Discoveries Even as-I-Type >(*U^)<) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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