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Sarracenia "Starry Night" x 'Hummers Hammerhead'

Another one of the crosses I did a couple years ago, finally putting up some defining pitchers.  Sarracenia “Starry Night” (link is a photo to the parent plant) is a very nicely colored Sarracenia excellens (leucophylla/minor hybrid), and Sarracenia ‘Hummer’s Hammerhead, looks like it has… well… a hammer head! 🙂

These are freshly opened pitchers, as the season progresses I hope that more color shows.  Two different seedling pitchers photographed below. The latter is starting to show some pinkish hues. Hmmm… what to call it? A “Starry Hammerhead?” LOL 😉

Sarracenia "Starry Night" x 'Hummers Hammerhead'

[Photo: Sarracenia “Starry Night” x ‘Hummers Hammerhead’]

Sarracenia "Starry Night" x 'Hummers Hammerhead'

[Photo: Sarracenia “Starry Night” x ‘Hummers Hammerhead’]

The Carnivorous Plantation

Howdy everyone!  Hope you’re enjoying your weekend!  Now, how about a little weekend getaway, shall we?

All photos in this video were all taken by Bob Hanrahan at his Carnivorous Plantation in Alabama.  Now pull up a seat (the video is about 22 minutes long), grab some popcorn, and enjoy the movie! 😉


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Mr. Hanrahan — a very sincere and special thanks to you for sharing this; it is an honor and a delight to have “virtually visited” The Carnivorous Plantation by way of these photos. For now, I must vicariously live through them until I visit in person one day soon. Thank you Bob!

Digestion

So, after the meal gets drawn in to the pitcher by the sights, smells, and savory serum spawned from the fierce foliage , it ends up looking kinda like this. Check out all those bugs swimming in a rich latte of enzymes that the plant uses to break em’ down for some nutritious absorption. Nice!

digestion

[In the tube…]

Yumm-o!

A couple of days ago whilst I was meandering about the garden, I spotted some lunch makin’ its way to the plant. Needless to say, after a few moments of sippin’ that luscious plant liqueur – there was a slip n’ slide, a few faint buzzes and… well… lunch was then served. Yumm-o!

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dinner [Sarracenia “John Rizzi” x ‘Judith Hindle’ w/ lunch.]

Harvest

seedpods[Sarracenia Seed Pods, collected 8.15.10]
Clockwise from top: S. flava “widemouth” x ‘Adrian Slack’, S. ‘Alucard’ x leucophylla anthocyanin free,
S. “Goliath” x ‘Adrian Slack’, S. oreophila – veined x ‘Adrian Slack, S. ‘Alucard’ x ‘Leah Wikerson’

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It’s that time of year again – today I was out in the grow area harvesting some pods. I left some of the labels on them so you can see how I keep track of the crosses as I do them. I learned the hard way to cover the tag in tape as snails will eat the cardboard and you loose the ID all together.  That was one mistake I learned the hard way last year. I did all these crosses only to have the identity taken by snails.   DOH!

Anyway, I know the pods may not look like much now but I am hopeful for some of these crosses.  Over here it’s been on the cool side of things so many plants and pods seem a little behind.   More pods are forthcoming which means more seeds soon! I am really looking forward to some of the ones I did this year … now just gotta figure out where I can put them all… 😉

Reptile Crossing!

Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’  is definately one of my all time favorite plants.  S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ was created by a good friend and breeding mentor, the legend: Phil Faulisi. (DUDE!) More information on the plant can be found here: http://www.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/Species/v38n1p12_22.html#Reptilian The following photo is an example of what S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ looks like. (Same plant as in my gravitar, to the right) 😉

Sarracenia 'Reptilian Rose'

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’]

The following photos are seed grown crosses of S. ‘Reptilian Rose’ that were created by fellow carnivorous cohort, Dr. Travis Wyman. (Thanks Travis!) These photos were taken in June/July of this year (2010) and seedlings are just a little under 2 years old.  I began to germinate them indoors back during the December of 2008.  You can see some variation and some similarities.  Keep in mind that these plants are still young and still have a lot of growing up to do. Some are showing tell-tale signs of the angular nectar roll, but we won’t really know how pronounced that characteristic will be until these pitchers are fully mature.  And I haven’t noticed any scents just yet… but I’ll keep you posted on my findings and I’ll post photos now and then as the plants mature.  😉


S. 'Reptilian Rose' x leucophylla "Pale"

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x leucophylla "Pale"

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x leucophylla "Pale"

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x Leucophylla "Pale"

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x Leucophylla "Pale"

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x leucophylla “pale”]

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)]

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)]

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)]

S. 'Reptilian Rose' x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)

[Sarracenia ‘Reptilian Rose’ x (flava var. rubricorpora x leucophylla)]

Sproutage!

Howdy y’all!  I was out checking some seeds that I started this year and to my delight, saw one sprouting!  I did this cross early on this year, harvested seed roughly a month ago, put through about 2 weeks cold stratification in the fridge and… viola!

Reptilian Rose x Adrian Slack

By the way…I did this same cross last year and only had a few seeds from that pod.  A few of those germinated but none survived. (Don’t ask…) I was so torn… anyway, hope to have better success this year.