Samoied Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Hello everyone. Here some shots of carnivores at Papagaio mountains, Southern part of Minas Gerais state - Brasil. These mountains are the type location where St. Hillare collected the plants he used in his description of Drosera Montana, in early 1800's. There are several species other than D. montana of course, mostly utricularia. These mountains have altitudes that goes from 1.000 mts to 2.350mts and bears different ecological niches where a stupendous flora diversity can be found. Here some shots of the mountains itself. Lets go to the plants. Utricularia pubescens was thriving in large numbers there. The species inhabits grassy swampy areas. Utricularia amethystina was also found in large numbers but growing in more sandy and drier areas, along with also abundant D. montana I found some interesting Peloric (aberrant) flowers. I found little Utricularia Subulata there, probably due to not being there in the apex of their flower season. I every other locations I found them we could find it by millions. (will continue in the next post) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samoied Posted March 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Continuing) There were two forms of Utricularia reniformis there. One with small leaves, that was usually found in shady locations, growing as a reophitic in river margins, and other with big leaves growing in grassy swamps or partialy shaded swampy florest margins. There were Two Genlisea species there: Genlisea aurea and Genlisea violacea. G. aurea usually grows in the same grassy swamp locations of U.reniformis and U.pubescens, and G. violacea is found in the organic waste pile-ups in the bare rock of the mountains peaks. G. aurea G. violacea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Rohrbacher Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Thanks for sharing (again) Regards. Carlos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samoied Posted March 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 (edited) There are 3 (at least until now) Drosera species in Papagaio mountains. D. tomentosa var. glabrata (the most southern location it was found acording to Fernando R.) D. montana and D. ascendens (not villosa!) D. tomentosa var. glabrata is a very rare sighting there, being restrict to some areas facing the Valley of Garcias. D. montana is easy found there, usually growing in sandy or red soils in rocky outcrops or tussoc grass areas. We were lucky to find lots of them in flower. D. ascendens (NOT VILLOSA) was the most impressive one, despite their very restrictive habits. I found a few isolated groups living in turf soils or reophitic over water-dripping rocks. The biggest individuals were about 12.8 cm in diameter! Well, thats pretty much it, I hope I can post my habitat reports more often from now on. I hope you enjoy the photos Cheers Adilson Edited March 8, 2009 by Samoied Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Hello Adilson, I'm really glad to see you posted these pics here on CPUK as well as the Brazilian forum! ;) Great job, beauiful place, plants & pics! Congrats, Fernando Rivadavia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iggy Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Thanks for sharing them Adilson !!!! Great trip and great pictures. I like the big D.ascendens ,stunning plants. Iggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Hingst Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Hi Adilson, very nice! Some great plants you found there. Thanks for sharing - Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudo klasovity Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Wow those are some beautiful pictures! Thank you very much for sharing! I love the droseras particularly! I am going to Brazil in May....hopefully I will take some pictures of CPs in the wild as well!!! THANX! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UtricSeb Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Beautiful, thanks for sharing. I love those D.ascendens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chloroplast Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Thank you for sharing these spectacular photos of plants in their native habitat. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jefforever Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 Thanks for the great Utricularia photos... I really love the Utricularia reniformis you found! Wonderful genlisea too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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