Post by shartmeyer on Aug 26, 2012 14:12:06 GMT
Enjoy the wonderful growing site of Sarracenia flava var. rubricorpora. This red form is seriously endangered by poaching and the number of plants is declining from year to year. Also large Venus Flytraps are here in full bloom. Not far away we are able to film a site with large Pinguicula planifolia "giant". In Tate's hell we stumble across Drosera brevifolia and are shaken to the score to see the very sad results of heavy poaching with our own eyes. As Brian reports from his own experience, the beautiful pink form of Sarracenia leucophylla at Tate's Hell suffers poaching since years, as the pitchers are collected and sold to the floral industry, and meanwhile only very small remnants survived, which will probably soon disappear from their natural habitat if the poaching does not end.
