Real December CP photos

[Ozzy]

I saw another thread titled "December CP photos" and it wasn't quite what I expected so I thought I would make this post.

 

[Ozzy]

 

[thez_yo]

Touché.

Very nice - I never knew green VFT leaves could co-exist with snow. One of these days I'll have to go see those guys out in the wild.

 

[Ozzy]

Let me know when you're in the area, I give tours all the time.

 

[thez_yo]

Let me know when you're in the area, I give tours all the time.

Really?! Sure! I don't know when I'll get a chance to go bum around the South next though...

 

[Ozzy]

You should be able to get my email from my profile so let me know.

 

[Joseph Clemens]

I visited the green swamp once, a few decades ago. It was amazing, inspiring, and depressing. Amazing for what still exists there in the area officially preserved. Many wild VFT, Sarracenia, Drosera, and Pinguicula along with the other interesting co-inhabitants of the area. Inspiring because it seems like it may, quite possibly be a long-term success at preserving a small part of the amazing ecology represented there. Depressing; because the area identified on my Geological Survey map as green swamp was what I drove through for about six hours (up and down, back and forth, through mile after mile of silviculture plots planted to assorted tree species/varieties, each surrounded by deep drainage ditches - I once came upon a plot that had been recently harvested and in the center of the plot, recently denuded of trees was a solitary plant of Sarracenia flava) before I finally came upon the portion of green swamp still inhabited by CP. Perhaps I am mistaken about the silviculture plots being former green swamp territory. I hope I am mistaken.

 

[Ozzy]

You weren't mistaken. Most of the green swamp, along what used to be sarr, vft, sundew, ping, habitat is now tree farms.

 

[Joseph Clemens]

Thanks Ozzy, I needed to know that, despite how depressing it is to contemplate.

I can hardly imagine what it must have been like before the tree farms happened. They must have destroyed more wild CP by turning their home into tree farms than all the plants that were ever destroyed by poachers, in the history of humans. Something like what's happening to our planet's rain forests. Who knows what species of plants/animals may have been destroyed by the conversion to cultivated trees.

 

[Dexenthes]

That's amazing. I've seen very few pictures of Dionea's natural habitat. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[dionae]

Very nice pics Ozzy!

 

[GrowinOld]

Cold!

Good Photos Ozzy...
Good way to illustrate how cold tolerant many CP's really are.

I have been reading a lot lately on how people don't realize they can tolerate the snow
and freezing temps as well as they do. Makes me wonder why they haven't spread further North.

Good to see we aren't the only ones with snow and freezing temps already!