Long Island Cedar Swamp

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Otherwise known as Long Island Location 4

This is a real pleasant place... a bog in a pond, in a Cedar Swamp behind the County Jails... and some rather intense Bush-Wacking to get there!

I can think of much more pleasant places to visit on Long Island during the Summer... like the Beaches!!!

But anyways... I took a couple of trips there, here is the first batch of photos:

It looks like I discovered a mucky pond of U. Gibba... there are some really nice D. Intermedia there too!!

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Now for the pretty flowers:

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Like I was saying, there are some great Intermedia here... lots of them!

































This guy below seemed to be a tree-form that got knocked over in the early spring heavy rains we had and spread out through the moss and sprouted new plants... I have early pics to add at a later date...







There were a couple of Praying Mantis there, here's one of em: