Recently I revisited a place where I have found D.communis here in Colombia near a town known as Amalfi.
This time I hoped to find blooming plants because it was the end of the dry season and usually plants around here bloom at this time in order to have seeds formed for the start of the rainy season.
What I found was that some plants but not many were blooming and some more were starting to produce the flower stalk.
Unfortunately I could not find any open flower.
Here are some pics to show this:
An interesting thing i found is that plants from this place bend its old flower stalk down to place the seed pods in contact with the grownd in a similar way to some Pinguicula species which also grow on vertical banks.
You can observe that in the next picture:
Finally a close up picture showing how the plant, its leaves and stipules look from close, even with a trapped victim.
Hope you enjoy!
Sebastián
This time I hoped to find blooming plants because it was the end of the dry season and usually plants around here bloom at this time in order to have seeds formed for the start of the rainy season.
What I found was that some plants but not many were blooming and some more were starting to produce the flower stalk.
Unfortunately I could not find any open flower.
Here are some pics to show this:
An interesting thing i found is that plants from this place bend its old flower stalk down to place the seed pods in contact with the grownd in a similar way to some Pinguicula species which also grow on vertical banks.
You can observe that in the next picture:
Finally a close up picture showing how the plant, its leaves and stipules look from close, even with a trapped victim.
Hope you enjoy!
Sebastián