Posted on 11/24/2007 4:17:25 PM PST by blam
I’m sure we’ve all known one or two women like that.
Sarracenia alata clump of plants in habitat. Hillside bog, western Louisiana.
Flowers
An outstanding S. alata with burgundy colored inner pitcher and lid. Seen in an open savannah, southeastern Mississippi late June, 1992
Hillside seep bog in the Angelina National Forest in east Texas. This site was in desperate need of burning. Plants were in a declining condition with heavy overgrowth in summer 1992. Note reddish coloration in upper pitchers by summer
are vegans allowed to eat these plants?
This is great stuff for a sixth grader ... at least when I was going to school. I wonder what a sixth grader is being tought in this day and age?
Haven't seen any Venus fly-traps here but there are a good many patches of sundews (also carnivorous...but small).Unless you're looking for them and know what you're looking for, they are very easy to miss.This is larger than life:
We’ve got a type of pitcher plant in boggy areas here in the north as well.
Maybe these plants can eat the vegans.
I don't know. It would appear that they are intelligent plants and meat eaters (bug meat)too. I always did think plants were living intelligent things, So vegans shouldn't eat them either. They should live only on clean air.
http://www.pfmt.org/wildlife/endangered/al_can.htm
Alabama Canebrake Pitcher Plant
(Sarracenia rubra ssp. alabamensis)
Description: Like all pitcher plants, this one is carnivorous, trapping and digesting insects in its tubular leaf. The tube of the Alabama Canebrake Pitcher Plant is 8 to 16 inches tall in the spring and may be curved in shaded conditions. The flower is maroon and droops from a 2 foot stalk. The flower appears in April through June. The summer leaves are also tubular and may be up to 27 inches long. They are light green and covered with white hair. The plant grows in wet areas and seeps along with grasses, sedges, sweetbay, poison sumac, bayberry, and sparkleberry.
Forestry Considerations: Pitcher plants are sun loving, so fire, which releases them from shade and woody brush is beneficial. They are very dependent on the moist soil conditions where they grow, so any activities which affect the water table or drainage of the site, including construction of firelines, site preparation, or harvesting is potentially harmful and should be carefully planned to avoid this impact.
Distribution by County: Alabama Canebrake Pitcher Plants are known to occur only in Autauga, Chilton, and Elmore Counties.
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If the plants were larger you could invert that question to "are these plants allowed to eat vegans?"
An idea worth considering.
Thank you for posting this article, blam. Whenever I get tired of the political scene, I find it refreshing to think of carnivorous plants that trap their victims in pitchers of slimy saliva.
They are also abundant in parts of Mobile County, AL.
Ahem, that's where I live. On the route to Bellingrath Gardens and Dauphin Island.
Stapleguns...
That's also where I lived in throughout 1960's when I worked at WABB radio, only I lived in town at the Chateau Rouge Apts. (hate to think of what might be left of them by now) about two blocks from the studios at Springhill Ave. & Catherine St.
* and back then we had a "Freeman House" diner adjacent to us in the same building.
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