Photograph by Susan Bello.
Photography contest, Honorable Mention.
Sarracenia purpurea – pitcher plant blossom, Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia.
Sarracenia purpurea
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Pitcher plant? Oh the pour thing!
Funny, they could more accurately be described as catcher plants.
You’re a litte pun gent today, wheels.
In software terms, maybe these are systems for debugging the ecosystem.
Is it worth a thousand words?
Pedantry: What the photograph actually shows is the immature fruit and persistent sepals, after the petals and stamens have withered and fallen off. I wouldn’t call it a blossom any more than I’d call a green apple and apple blossom.
Here’s a shot I made years ago of the same structure (but possibly a definite Sarracenia species, I had multiple species) featuring a crab spider with a joyful abdomen:
http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/[…]ghspider.jpg
And, another day, (the same?) spider having lunch in the pitcher of a Sarracenia leukophilia:
http://i313.photobucket.com/albums/[…]flydeath.jpg
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