Post by kirkauburn on May 17, 2021 20:26:26 GMT -5
Hi everyone!
Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to explore Blackwater for the day to check out some of the awesome flava, leucophylla, and all the other amazing rare plants at these sites! Jeremiah Harris was my gracious tour guide and definitely knew where to find some amazing Sarracenia! I'll try to remember all the different details of these pics, but to be honest the whole day went by as a blur because there was so much good stuff to see. Hope you enjoy the pictures!
All in all, we saw many different flavas, leucos and moorei (our main focus), but we also saw many psittacina, a few catesbaeis and lots of filiformis along with a few stands of pings as well. Because of the Spring rain, all the seepages were flowing quickly and the bog was very wet!
The first site we visited was a little smaller, nearly all of the flava were rugelli and the leucos didn't have much red which made for some killer yellow moorei with a red throat.
The second site we got some more colorful flava varieties. I won't pretend to know which are atros, rubricorpa or ornata but you can see for yourself. It was a little early since down south we're having a later Spring with more rain, but the plants were still absolutely incredible
The third site was definitely our favorite! The diversity here was incredible and the site seemed to go on and on. There were some much more red leucos and one particular stand with amazing height for Spring pitchers. This led to a crazy variety of mooreis. Jeremiah also knew of one huge clump of Maxima which we believed to be the only Maxima on the site, however we did find one other small plant that looked like a Maxima.
The final stop of our tour was a very cool little rubra site - I didn't expect much but they definitely exceeded my expectations! For Spring pitchers they were colorful and definitely vigorous! We also saw psittacina here and some drosera.
Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to explore Blackwater for the day to check out some of the awesome flava, leucophylla, and all the other amazing rare plants at these sites! Jeremiah Harris was my gracious tour guide and definitely knew where to find some amazing Sarracenia! I'll try to remember all the different details of these pics, but to be honest the whole day went by as a blur because there was so much good stuff to see. Hope you enjoy the pictures!
All in all, we saw many different flavas, leucos and moorei (our main focus), but we also saw many psittacina, a few catesbaeis and lots of filiformis along with a few stands of pings as well. Because of the Spring rain, all the seepages were flowing quickly and the bog was very wet!
The first site we visited was a little smaller, nearly all of the flava were rugelli and the leucos didn't have much red which made for some killer yellow moorei with a red throat.
The second site we got some more colorful flava varieties. I won't pretend to know which are atros, rubricorpa or ornata but you can see for yourself. It was a little early since down south we're having a later Spring with more rain, but the plants were still absolutely incredible
The third site was definitely our favorite! The diversity here was incredible and the site seemed to go on and on. There were some much more red leucos and one particular stand with amazing height for Spring pitchers. This led to a crazy variety of mooreis. Jeremiah also knew of one huge clump of Maxima which we believed to be the only Maxima on the site, however we did find one other small plant that looked like a Maxima.
The final stop of our tour was a very cool little rubra site - I didn't expect much but they definitely exceeded my expectations! For Spring pitchers they were colorful and definitely vigorous! We also saw psittacina here and some drosera.