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Post by dvg on Feb 2, 2009 19:26:04 GMT -5
Just checked in on my Genlisea aurea, and it is flowering. It is sending up three flower stalks and one of them has a flower open. And it is the strangest looking thing. It looks like a dude's face, wearing a yellow cowboy hat, with a long pointy ZZ Top looking-beard. The 'beard' is the flower's spur, and is huge compared to the rest of the yellow flower. These wonders just never cease to amaze.
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Post by hal on Feb 2, 2009 22:37:14 GMT -5
Pics or it didn't happen I must see this ZZ Top flower.
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Post by dvg on Feb 3, 2009 1:23:41 GMT -5
Hal, the cowboy hat effect might just be the shape of the opening flower. I had another look at it just now and it looks like the flower has opened even more. I'll try and get a pic of it tomorrow, but by that time it might look like the bearded lady in a yellow bonnet.
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Post by tael on Feb 3, 2009 12:50:19 GMT -5
I know I do!
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Post by dvg on Feb 4, 2009 0:41:25 GMT -5
Here are a couple of pics of my G. aurea flower. The first pic is a front view of the flower. This second photo is a side view of this rather unusual looking flower. I'm not sure if it is fully opened yet, as I have never seen one of these up close before. Looks like I'll be getting some experience with these though...there's an unopened flower bud just above this flower, as shown in this photo.
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Post by tael on Feb 4, 2009 1:10:16 GMT -5
Wow, that's neat looking! I can only see the one picture though. EDIT: It's showing up now! Sorry, haha. Interesting flowers!
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Post by dvg on Feb 4, 2009 1:30:57 GMT -5
I wasn't going to post them, but then you, hal and petmantis wanted to see them. Definitely strange looking thangs! But it does makes me wonder what naturally pollinates this flower.
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Post by tael on Feb 4, 2009 1:36:06 GMT -5
Haha! They definitely are strange looking...!
They sort of remind me of Gandalf from the front (haha, oh god. Forgive me, my friends and I are going through a LotR thing right now.......). Huge long beard and all you know?
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Post by dvg on Feb 4, 2009 1:45:29 GMT -5
Yeah, I can see it. Totally a Gandalf beard. But what kinda hat does he have on?
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Post by tael on Feb 4, 2009 1:47:36 GMT -5
His hat is tipped back and he's looking down on everyone!
Though his face is kind of an odd shape... Almost like a lizard head.
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Post by dvg on Feb 4, 2009 1:48:54 GMT -5
LOL! That's hilarious! ;D
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Post by Rick Hillier on Feb 4, 2009 7:34:57 GMT -5
I have a genlisea cross flowering prolificly now... and the flowers don't look anything like that. I didn't know that there was such a variance among flower shapes in this genus. I learned something new today, so I guess I'm not dead yet.
I'll try to get a pic of one of mine to show you what I mean.
>>> Rick <<<
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Post by dvg on Feb 4, 2009 12:49:35 GMT -5
I consider any day I can learn something new, a good day...at least in my books, anyway.
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Post by dvg on Feb 4, 2009 15:58:36 GMT -5
Thanks Matei! Photo contest, me? I know it wasn't too long ago,(just weeks ago) that I didn't know how to post pictures, or even how to get the pictures out of the camera and into the computer. Thanks again, for the encouragement.
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Post by dvg on Feb 11, 2009 23:36:35 GMT -5
This picture was taken this evening. It shows the original flower from a few days ago on the bottom, with the newly opening flower above it. This is another flower from an adjacent spike. Nice hat!
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