Sarracenia minors are quite splendid, indeed! Employing deceiving light patches (areoles) as a means of hopeless escape to lure their prey deeper into the hood. It’s a very cool windows system. Obviously this S. minor’s windows system works much better than my Windows 7 system at work… (Ugh!) I received the below plant from my good friend Jerry Addington earlier this year. Thanks Jerry!
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Sarracenia minor – Waycross, GA
Sarracenia minor – Waycross, GA
At work we will soon be doing a system upgrade to Windows 7… I’m not quite too sure what to think of it as I’ve never been on 7. Oh well, like I really have a choice, right? From what I hear it’s pretty cool.
Anyway, there are some plants that utilize the windows system (for trapping) as well – fascinating stuff! The areoles (or windows, light patches) provide a false sense of escape for the prey. After entering the pitcher, the victim thinks it can escape it’s doom by flying or climbing towards the light. Frantic – it tries to break free… only to be exausted by it’s futile efforts and eventually succumbs to the plant’s power. Ah shizznit bro, alt+control+delete won’t save it from this windows system. So after work yesterday, I was just hangin’ out in the garden and decided to take a few photos of some of the plants that employ the windows system. Enjoy!
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Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis
Sarracenia psittacina “Golfballensis” x ‘Judith Hindle’
A cross by Brooks Garcia that I grew out from seed.
Sarracenia psittacina x minor
Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis hybrid
Cross by Brooks Garcia I grew out from seed.
Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis hybrid
Cross by Brooks Garcia I grew out from seed.
Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis hybrid
Cross by Brooks Garcia I grew out from seed.
Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x ‘Golden-Red Jubilee’
Cross by Brooks Garcia I grew out from seed.
Sarracenia minor var. okefenokeensis x “Green Monster”
A collaboration hybrid I did with Miggity-Money Mizzike Wang.
My S. “Green Monster” was flowering that year and Mike was rad enough to lend me a flowering S. minor var. okefenokeensis. The seedlings from this cross are AF recessive and I am looking to use them as a base for further AF hybrids.
Sarracenia psittacina, AF (Anthocyanin Free) clone
Darlingtonia californica
OK, this isn’t a Sarracenia, however it’s a damn fine California native carnivore that uses the windows system. Dotted all throughout it’s Epcot center like hood, you can find the windows that provide that false sense of escape.
Freekin’ awesome, yo.
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Tagged areoles, darlingtonia, minor, okefenokeensis, Pitcher Plant, psittacina, Sarracenia, windows
