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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Two more CPs

Rounding up the, uh, carnivorous plant roundup, here are two more protein-loving veggies:

Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), red variation

Drosera dielsiana, a tropical sundew

Pitchers! (Part 2: Nepenthes)

And now, howzabout some Nepenthes, the plant genus for which I created this blog in the first place!

N. rajah, the largest pitcher plant on Earth. (No, not THIS specimen, of course!)


N. x "Red Leopard" (N. ventricosa x maxima)


N. ventricosa x pectinata


N. sibuyanensis, up close and personal

Pitchers! (Part 1: C. follicularis)

I haven't posted any shots of carnivorous plants in a long time - shame on me, after all, this IS the Pitcher Post! Well, here comes a new batch now: a few pix of my Cephalotus follicularis, the Australian Pitcher Plant.


For the gear queers amongst you:
Pentax K10D
SIGMA 105mm F2.8 EX DG Macro
Kenko extension tubes (12+20+36 mm)
Tripod
IR remote

Dragonfly Naiad Shells and Friend

These dragonflies - or rather, the naiad shells they left behind - seem to have come right out of some two-bit SciFi videogame. Insectoid Warriors from Outer Space! Soulless ectotherms with merciless eyes!

They can't be bargained with!
They can't be reasoned with
!
They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear!
And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!
RAAAAHHHHRGH!


Ahem. My apologies to James Cameron - guess I got a little carried away there with those AlienTerminatorFromHell similes...

Anyway, what I like about this scene is how that cutsey-wootsey little ladybug literally walks all over those fearful creatures, tearing apart and taking the piss out of of their formidable War of the Worlds appearance...

A few random shots

These are from the box labeled "POST ON BLOG, ALREADY!" that's been sitting under my desk for what seems like almost a year now...just an unconnected jumble of random shots.

Enjoy anyway!


Agapanthus africanus


Magnolia, backlighted



Water bamboo (Zizania caduciflora). Dig the artsy frame!


Duckweed forming some Central Asian country I can't remember the name of...one of those 'stans I think.


At Ch'ingshan Waterfall, Yangmingshan National Park, North Slope