. On the summits of the spectacular Tepuis of the Guiana Highlands, South America, fifteen species of pitcher plants of the genus Heliamphora have been discovered. One of the least documented and least studied of all is Heliamphora exappendiculata which occurs at the heart of the Guiana Highlands on the Chimanta Massif – a massive […]
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Heliamphora exappendiculata – A Newly Rediscovered Pitcher Plant from Venezuela
2012-08-07
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. Sarracenia is a genus of eight species of pitcher plants that naturally occurs across North America, mainly in the southern gulf coast of the United States of America. Sarracenia are noteworthy in that all species of this group produce spectacular tubular foliage which is often bright coloured and very beautiful. The hollow, tubular leaves […]
. In August 2007, I had the opportunity to visit the island of Sulawesi with a friend Greg Bourke, to study a little known pitcher plant called Nepenthes glabrata which is endemic to elevated habitats of central Sulawesi between 1,600 and 2,000 meters above sea level. Sulawesi is an island of great diversity a melting […]
Byblis – the Rainbow Plants
2012-07-17
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. Byblis is the most beautiful genus of all of the sticky-leaved insect-eating plants. All Byblis plants produces delicate, leaves lined with sparkling droplets of glue which reflect light with a silvery brilliance, and this has earned the genus the English name ‘the rainbow plants’.
. There are seven genera of pitcher plants that are distributed across the world, the most unusual of all is the genus Darlingtonia which consists of one species, D. californica, which produces extraordinary shaped, hollow leaves that resemble striking cobras, poised upright ready to attack. It is the strange shape of the foliage of D. […]
Aldrovanda and Nepenthes
2012-06-17
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It is my pleasure to write to you to announce that the following brand new books have been printed and will soon arrive for distribution: Aldrovanda – The Waterwheel Plant by Adam Cross This spectacular 249 page work is the first comprehensive monograph of Aldrovanda, the extraordinary carnivorous “Waterwheel Plant”. Known for trapping aquatic prey between jaw-like […]
. The beginning of the twentieth century represents an age of discovery and exploration – a time when our picture of the Earth remained incomplete and still filled with the unknown. The Guiana Highlands of Venezuela, northern Brazil and Guyana lay at the forefront of the minds of explorers – a remote land dominated by […]
