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Post by Randy Zerr on May 29, 2008 6:15:27 GMT
www.geocities.com/pitcherplants/2008_0527.htmlA 6 hour trip over the weekend to some nearby bogs and swamps. More photos and another video. I'm happy to report the Utricularia floridana still thrives in the pond on the edge of town. I had thought the plants would disapear with the adjacent development, runoff, duck feeding, fishing and other activity. Must be a tollerant species. The supersized Utricularia purpurea are in full bloom. There are a number of invasive exotic plants in the same swamp so I wonder.... Is there a similar exotic species to U. purpurea, perhaps more robust than the North American variety? Thanks to Eglin Air Force Base natural resource management regularly burning, one of the better savannahs is looking real nice. A new bog was found with a wide variety of Sarracenia.Comments, corrections welcome.
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Post by Brian Barnes on May 29, 2008 10:43:45 GMT
Excellent! The Utricularia are very lovely.... Interesting viewpoint on the Utricularia purpurea. I would think that it is possible, although it definitely looks like U. purpurea. Good Job, Brian.
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Post by BarryRice on May 30, 2008 19:30:38 GMT
Hey Randy,
Great photos, nice video, too.
I looked up the description of U. purpurea in Taylor, and your plants fit within the description regarding size and color, but they are on the large end of the spectrum. They certainly dwarf the ones that I have seen in Texas, Florida, and Georgia!
Very nice.
Barry
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Post by Randy Zerr on May 31, 2008 22:29:27 GMT
Thanks fellas. Amazing how one pond will have certain species and the next over will have different. I do not think I've seen anything that fits U. foliosa yet and some of the others. I don't know why the U. olivacea and U. striata are not blooming. They were this time 4 years ago and this last trip to this swamp I did find the tiny, delicate plants of olivacea. Maybe they will flower later in June. Tiny little plants.
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