sciabokho Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Hey, I just put my blog about my fieldtrip near Darwin online. Here is a link to it: http://sciabokho.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/veldtripje-naar-darwinnt/ Felix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zlatokrt Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Photos of petiolaris Drosera from nature are not common, it must have been an interesting trip. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonk Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Ouah ! Good photos, it's interesting to see these uncommon plants in their natural envirronment So sad I can't read german... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RL7836 Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Wow!! That was some trip! You did an absolutely fantastic job with the pics & the article describing your trip -- many thanks!! It's so rare that we get to see these plants in their natural habitat - fantastic!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
droseraman Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 fantastic report! Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel O. Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Hi Felix, nice pictures and report nethertheless i did not understand everything. For sure you have had a nice time there. Thanks for sharing. Best regards, Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Rivadavia Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Wow, how did you manage to find so many species?? Congratulations! It is truly a great pleasure to see rare pics of these plants in the wild, thank you!! Fernando Rivadavia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andreas Eils Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Mon dieu, Felix!!! GREAT field report! It made me drool onto my keyboard!!! *sigh* I love the section Lasiocephala sundews so muchly! The pictures drive me to tears... ....tears of joy, of course! Congrats! Andreas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sciabokho Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 How i'd manage? All the difference drove me crazy... I'm still getting a lot of info of everything I've seen. And more questions aswell. Anayway, I walked with a big smill for days and liked it to share this with you. Tnx for the replies. Felix Ps your tears rememberd me of all the rivers of sweat rolling of my face dripping on my camera and the tiny plants I hung above--> over 40 C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Allan Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Great plants, especially the Byblis aquatica. What were the Byblis growing conditions like? Also, did the Byblis have many insects adhered to the leaves? Cheers, Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tropicbreeze Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 That was very good, and a great help to me. It's always difficult to identify these plants, and you've already done most of the hard work. I guess your trip was last year as this year the weather has been unusually dry and not all the plants are out yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emiel Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 (edited) He Felix, heel erg mooi! I guess your trip was last year as this year the weather has been unusually dry and not all the plants are out yet. As far as I know, Felix is actually there at this moment, so the fieldreport is this year. Edited January 12, 2012 by Emiel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tropicbreeze Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Actually probably last year, this wet season, but I know what you mean. It's just that after TC Grant everything started to dry out rapidly. Last week I was looking for some Utricularia in a particular spot but never found any. There's some Drosera about, mainly petiolaris. Next week I'll be out and see what I can come up with. But of course the best time is end of the wet season and early part of the dry season. This is the checklist for Drosera in the NT: banksii R.Br. ex DC. brevicornis Lowrie burmanni Vahl darwinensis Lowrie derbyensis Lowrie dilatatopetiolaris Kondo falconeri Kondo & Tsiang fulva Planch. indica L. lanata Kondo ordensis Lowrie paradoxa Lowrie petiolaris R.Br. ex DC. subtilis N.G.Marchant And the checklist for Utricularia: arnhemica P.Taylor aurea Lour. australis R.Br. bifida L. caerulea L. capilliflora F.Muell. cheiranthos P.Taylor chrysantha R.Br. circumvoluta P.Taylor dunlopii P.Taylor dunstaniae F.E.Lloyd foveolata Edgew. fulva F.Muell. gibba L. hamiltonii F.E.Lloyd holtzei F.Muell. involvens Ridl. kamienskii F.Muell. kimberleyensis C.A.Gardner lasiocaulis F.Muell. leptoplectra F.Muell. leptorhyncha O.Schwarz limosa R.Br. minutissima Vahl muelleri Kamienski odorata Pell. quinquedentata F.Muell. ex P.Taylor rhododactylos P.Taylor singeriana F.Muell. sp. Red (R.K.Harwood 145) sp. Small white (M.O.Rankin 2450) stellaris L.f. subulata L. triflora P.Taylor tubulata F.Muell. uliginosa Vahl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amphirion Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 beautiful photographs! thanks so much for putting up with the ridiculous heat and humidity to share these pictures with us! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sciabokho Posted January 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Photo's are taken 6 januari till 9 januari 2012. Most flowering plants were flowering for a while. Still conditions were dry, or the soil dried out quikly when the sun was shining. Inhad one major thunderstorm and there was a cyclone two weeks earlier. The Byblis was growing in a bit shade in open forrest and a bit wetter then the orher plants. They al grew in some sort of grass. They apeared to do not catch a lot of prey. Maybe strong showers washed them off once in a while. What I found remarkeble was the fact they all, realy all grew upon little hills of soil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Fleischmann Posted January 13, 2012 Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Dear Felix, Thank you for that great report, and for showing the beautifull Drosera photos. The first species you found abundantly is not D. dilatato-petiolaris, but D. brevicornis. The flower scapes are much too thick and robust to be D. dilatato-petiolaris, and the pedicels would also be much longer in that species. There are only two species that have flower stalks and pedicels like the plants on your photos (and both are very closely related), namely D. fulva and D. brevicornis. In the flower close-up (the first one, with pure white petals) you can clearly see the "horns" at the tip of the anthers: it is D. brevicornis. And the flower below, with the larger and slightly pinkish petals clearly to D. fulva. Unfortunately it is a bit difficult for me to ID the Utricularia species from that flower angle, as I would need to see the spur and the bracts to confirm its identity. But it is most likely U. leptorhyncha. Do you perhaps have a photo of the flower in lateral view? The Drosera you were not sure about whether it is D. darwinensis or D. brevicornis is D. darwinensis. Very nice photographs! All the best, Andreas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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