Interesting plant. Funny no one mentioned the beautiful sundews in the first photo.
THANK YOU!
I will be posting up some very good images of a Drosera next week-end or as soon as I can get my current journal on Selaginella done enough this week for launching.
And if I can find out what that plant is then it will be identified and I will probably move it to another page such as other plants. While it is a look-a-like of sorts of a Venus Flytrap I am fascinated by its appearance and hope to find an explanation for the inturned "bristles" (if this is what they are).
If they were out-turned then the explanation as a protection against
predation would make sense. Obviously these structures enable this plant to survive. But the only possibility I can see is, if this area undergoes any drought and the drosera species you see growing next to it are annual or die back to the ground to survive, as a way of collecting and holding water droplets or even condensation but
? The only other explanation would be a passive carnivorous activity if these bristles could actually hold an insect or a worm or ?? for other insects or predators to assimilate and any by-products could be used by this plant
I think it would be interesting to find out!
I like the suggestion that it may be some kind of Faucaria. but I do not think that this genus has any members that grow in boggy situations even during only part of the year.
And this was not meant to be funny but I definitely can get into the humor!
What I really find interesting is that it only points out the possibility that there may yet be new unknows carnivorous plants out there!!! Seymour notwithstanding!!
Will note on this thread when I am able to get some images up of a real carnivorous plant.