{"id":4503,"date":"2012-04-20T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2016-03-23T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T13:32:20","slug":"carnivorous-plants-and-their-habitats-volumes-1-and-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/?p=4503","title":{"rendered":"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats Volumes 1 and 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/?p=4522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4377\" title=\"LT\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/LT.jpg\" alt=\"LT\" width=\"30\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a>ISBN:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfernnaturalhistory.com\" target=\"_blank\">978-0-9558918-4-7<\/a><br \/>\nISBN:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfernnaturalhistory.com\" target=\"_blank\">978-0-9558918-5-4<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This spectacular two volume work examines the wild ecology, diversity and natural history of all carnivorous plant genera for the first time. Written in clear yet substantive language, this visually beautiful study reveals carnivorous plants in greater detail than ever before, and offers horticulturists specific information to achieve greater levels of success in cultivation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8051\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-1.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats comprises 1,441 pages and includes 799 beautiful images. Six years in the making, this work profiles the distribution, botanical history, morphology, diversity, ecology, traditional uses, associated life, cultivation requirements and conservation status of all recognised carnivorous plant genera of the world.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8052\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-2.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 2\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/>The newly discovered genus <em>Philcoxia<\/em> is also covered in unique detail and for the very first time. Preliminary findings suggest the highly specialised, glandular structures of the foliage of <em>Philcoxia<\/em> are carnivorous adaptations, and indeed microscopic animal prey is readily caught and killed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many other plants documented in this work have been discovered only very recently, and in many cases, the photographs presented here are among the first to be published, including four spectacular new species of pitcher plants (<em>Nepenthes<\/em>), which are formally described and introduced here (<em>N. gantungensis, N. holdenii, N. hamiguitanensis and N. palawanensis<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8053 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-3.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 3\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/>Volume One covers the following chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>Tables Turned: A New Natural Order<\/li>\n<li>Carnivorous Plants of the World<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of Carnivorous Plants<\/li>\n<li>Associated Life: Mutualists and Infauna<\/li>\n<li>Habitats of Carnivorous Plants: Snap Traps, Aldrovanda, Dionaea, Pitcher Plants, Darlingtonia, Heliamphora, Sarracenia, Nepenthes, Cephalotus, Brocchinia, Catopsis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8054\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-4.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 4\" width=\"302\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-4.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-4-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/>Volume Two covers the following chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sticky-Leaved Insect-Eating Plants: Triphyophyllum, Drosera, Drosophyllum, Roridula, Byblis, Pinguicula, Proboscidea, Philcoxia<\/li>\n<li>Corkscrew Plants: Genlisea<\/li>\n<li>Bladderworts: Utricularia<\/li>\n<li>The future of Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats<\/li>\n<li>Appendix<\/li>\n<li>Glossary<\/li>\n<li>Bibliography<\/li>\n<li>Index<\/li>\n<li>About the Author<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats is an up-to-date, comprehensive, focused, well illustrated, and visually beautiful study of all known carnivorous plant genera. It will be a valued source of information for all interested in carnivorous plants of the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Limited Edition: Only 1,500 first edition copies printed!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8055 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-5.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 5\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-5.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-5-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8056 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-6.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 6\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-6.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-6-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8057\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-7.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 7\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-7.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-7-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8058\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-8.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 8\" width=\"585\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-8.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-8-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8059\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-9.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 9\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-9.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-9-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8060\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-10.jpg\" alt=\"Carnivorous Plants and their Habitats 10\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-10.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Carnivorous-Plants-and-their-Habitats-10-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musekautas.lt\/?p=8032\" target=\"_blank\">More\u00a0pictures<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Stewart McPherson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>__________________ <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISBN:\u00a0978-0-9558918-4-7 ISBN:\u00a0978-0-9558918-5-4 This spectacular two volume work examines the wild ecology, diversity and natural history of all carnivorous plant genera for the first time. 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