PETREL POINT NATURE RESERVE ~ Red Bay, Ontario CANADA - Carnivorous Plant Localities on Waymarking.com

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Sundews (Drosera)

are probably the most diverse genus of carnivorous plants in the world, with more than 120 species world-wide.
Their leaves are arranged in a rosette, generally flat on the ground, and their surface is covered with hundreds of hairlike tentacles, at the end of which one is a red gland which produces a small, clear, glistening, sticky drop of dew.
D.Capillaris Angelina Co. A flying-by insect which foolishly mistaken the dew for nectar and lands on on a Sun Dew leaf, quickly discovers that the more it attempts to get unglued the more firmly it is held. In a matter of minutes the Sun Dew begins to secrete enzymes and acids which start to dissolve its victim's body. The glands then start to absorb the nutritious liquefied insect.



All the "Pitcher Plant Species" have exotic, unusual-looking scented flowers, which sit on top of a 1-2 foot tall stem. The flower of the Texas trumpet is yellow. It starts as a small ball at the end of a stem which sprouts out of a growing point. When the stem gets tall enough, the end with the ball starts bending downward, and the ball growing and expanding, to finally release the flower with five yellow petals, which hangs upside-down.
S. alata flower after the flower becomes pollinated by insects, the petals dry out and fall off, the pod in the middle of the flower starts to grow, full of seed.
The flower and stem become dry and, by late September the pods burst open to reveal and let drop hundreds of seed. The seed can travel quite far by riding the water of streams. By late winter all the pitchers have dried out also.



A close-up of the throat of a "Pitcher Plant" receptor

Horned Bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta)

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Parking Location: N 44° 48.841 W 081° 17.384 Type of Locality: Wild Terrain Difficulty: Species Present: SUN DEWS PITCHER PLANTS Aldrovanda: no Byblis: no Cephalotus: no Darlingtonia: no Dionaea: no Drosera: yes Drosophyllum: no Genlisea: no Heliamphora: no Nepenthes: yes Pinguicula: no Sarracenia: no Triphyophyllum: no Utricularia: yes

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