Your pictures are not loading for me. I don't have any pictures to show, and most of my plants are all babies anyway. Maybe when they get a little older!

You should really be more polite in the way you ask for things. As well, your pictures are not showing up at all.

Yes they are not loading for me either. And what wasn't I polite about?!?!?

make the pictures smaller any ways they are way to big probably.

cheers

Hi, I started a thread like this not long ago.

A lot of collections are on here

Cheers

Kyle

I can show you my 2005 collection. However, these plants that you are viewing from these pictures, are currently dormant and are not growing actively as showned in the pictures. My plants looked like this during the growing season(February-October)

Here They are:

Windowsill Collection
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My Flytrap Seedlings from seed
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BigMouth Vft
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Outdoor Collection
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Dionaea 'Giant'
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Dionaea 'Vigorous'
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Dionaea 'Red Dragon'
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Pinguicula x Titan, Moranensis & Sethos
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Sarracenia Flava Pitchers
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Pinguicula Sethos
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Dionaea 'bigmouth' divisions
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Nepenthes Sanguinea
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Home Depot Nepenthes
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Cephalotus Follicularis

Hope you enjoy the pics.

You VFTs are simply stunning. I hope I can grow some like those next year.

Keep up the good work.

You can see many of my plant pictures here:

Here is a link that might be useful: My CP pages

check out some of my and others plants here:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/carnivor/msg1014182725130.html?24

I agree with the previous statment. That's a kick'n pot of bigmouth VFTs. Not that any of your other plants are substandard...In a word, Impressive. Good work!!

VFT
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mexican butterwort
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lance leaf sundew
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quit small collection, but hope it will grow

I recieved this Sarracenia purpurea bare-root, it is actively growing, and it's growing in my room's windowsill.. it's growing pretty quick too.
Sarracenia Purpurea Venosa
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VFt,& 2 Sarracenia purpurea Venosa
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In the post from Xymox, I was intrigued by the picture of Cephalotus Follicularis. It is a cool looking plant, and I've never heard of it. Is this a Carnivorous plant? If so, where can I get one, and can you tell me more about it?

Thanks.

Jon

Hey Banjoman/Jon,

Cephalotus Follicularis is indeed a carnivorous plant. It is known to be found in the coastal area of Australia, called Albany. The plant itself was discovered in 1971 by Archibald Menzies.

The plant is known to be found with small trails and tiny crawling insects inside the plants pitchers. I usually feed mine maggots from the pet stores. The plant itself is easy to grow. Cephalotus can be growned under lights, in a bright indirect area or window. or simply in a windowsill. I grow mine in a sunny windowsill, though.

Cephalotus follicularis is watered by over head watering, they dislike having flooded roots since it's known to lead their roots to rot. they like their media to be moist but not water logged. their prefered media is peatmoss+perlite since perlite makes the media to have a better drainage.

Cephalotus is a bit like the nepenthes, but not that quite. Cephalotus has the only characteristics as nepenthes because it grows pitchers as well(and that's the only characteristic, Nepenthes are vine growing, cephalotus are ground hugging plants, were talking about pitchers here). The pitchers themselves make digestive juices before the lids of the pitchers completely open. Many growers assume that the plant is a slow grower, but to me, cephalotus grows quite quick.

Cephalotus grows two types of leaves;

Spring spatulate leaves, these leaves are used for leaf cuttings. they only begin appearing during the mid winter months(around November- march)These leaves appear for one reason, for a short dormancy stage. Unlike nepenthes, cephalotus requires a short dormancy stage, which they require less watering. 4-5 hours of bright light is fine. These 'winter leaves' are not carnivorous.

Pitchers; these are known to be carnivorous. the pitcher lids do not 'shut close' or clamp the pray inside(it would kick ass though if that truly happened!) the pitchers are passive pouches that have digestive juices, these digestive juices lure small crawling insects such as ants to fall inside the pools of dijestive juices. this way, the plant absorbs the nutrients of the fallen victim, aquiring nutrients in order for the plant to grow. feeding is not that neccesary. the main food for cephalotus is bright light, moist media and high humidity.

There are a few types of cephalotus that exist, the typical form and giant form. some say that there is also a cultivar that remains its colouration solid green even if growned in strong light.

Xymox gave a great discription of this plant.

I just thought I would show a picture of mine.

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Thanks to Xymox for the thorough description and Elgecko for the amazing picture. Unfortunately, I could find no Australian Pitcher plants available right now on line, but I'll keep checking.

For now, I'll just have to keep happy with the two huge Nepenthes Alata I just picked up at Home Depot a few minutes ago. I'll keep checking the websites for Cephalotus availability.

This forum has really piqued my interest.

Jon

Tony has some avaiable right now.

Here is a link that might be useful: Exotic Plants Plus

Who is Tony, and how would I order one? Thanks. Jon

banjoman,
Below my post it says:
Here is a link that might be useful: Exotic Plants Plus

If you were to click on the link it will take you to the website of Exotic Plants Plus which is operated by Tony Paroubek.
He has great looking, healthy plants. I purchased my N. hamata from him.

I also included the link in this post as well.

Here is a link that might be useful: Exotic Plants Plus