Tuesday 7 May 2013

Carnivorous plants in habitat

It's a middle of spring and very warm here and moreover off-day today! So I visited a local site where 4 kinds of natural sundews can be seen. This is a very special for our only tuberous drosera, D. peltata in habitat.

A month ago I couldn't find a sign of D. peltata budding. They grow very quickly.

The floral apexes are just growing and in a next month they will make tiny while flowers.

A leaf with mucus, very sticky!

D. spatulata is very common in here.

A flower of D. spatulata

Tiny flowers of Gentiana squarrosa are everywhere.

One of the most common orchid in Japan, Bletilla striata

Back to carnivorous, This is D. rotundifolia.

This is D. tokaiensis, a natural hybrid between D. rotundifolia and D. spatulata. This is also very common.

Purplish flowers of Polygala japonica

Wisteria floribunda, slightly scented

Thursday 2 May 2013

Stylidium sp.

One of my triggerplants has bloomed pinkish flowers with dark red triggers today. It took about 2 years to meet the flowers from seeds.

But the thing is that initially I imported the seeds as Stylidium diuroides subsp. diuroides from an Australian nursery. But confirming the flower, I realised that this name was wrong because the flower of S. diuroides is yellow!

I looked through the Internet to identify this species. Then I came across two species. It seems to be either S. brunomianum or S. tenue. Does anyone know the actual name of this trigger???