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Post by doug on Aug 22, 2010 11:29:49 GMT -5
Hi all: I was back country camping in Algonquin Park last week and saw many CPs You can see the highlights at: picasaweb.google.com/doug.dastew/Algonquin2010Aug#What I noticed was that many old logs had sundews on them (rotundifolia and intermedia) a closer view of some intermedia and some round feaf and some pitcher plants (not on logs) this one is very deep in the water and a bladder wort can anybody give this a name? We had a good time ;D
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Post by sherkas on Aug 22, 2010 12:42:27 GMT -5
those are very nice pictures. I wouldnt want to wreck the habitat but with plants looking so good like that... I would almost want to take them for my own!
Those sundews grew so well in that old log.. I wonder if that could be used as a growing medium. Do you know what kind of tree it was and if there was any other media with it or was it truely JUST a log?
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Post by kd on Aug 22, 2010 13:05:46 GMT -5
That's awesome!! Didn't someone else post pics like this earlier? Looks familiar. I've never seen D. rotundifolia growing on anything other than moss hummocks - interesting to see how it's growing there. I've also never seen such a huge concentration of sundews in the first and second pics. Are those all the same species? Which ones? D. anglica? Interesting bladderwort. I didn't know there were anything other than yellow flowered species in Canada.
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Post by doug on Aug 22, 2010 15:46:58 GMT -5
Hi Sherkas: Yes they do grow on just the log. I had seen this before but thought it was an unusual occurrence, but this time I took the time to investigate more thoroughly. On every lake that we looked we found them growing on logs This included Tom Thomson , Bartlett, Little Doe, Faun, and Joe lakes. I also saw this in Canisbay lake and other lakes over by Parry Sound. Wood as it ages looses much of its contents and becomes much like a sponge, so I am assuming that what is left of these old logs is very nutrient poor, and is just a sponge to hold the water for the Dews. On some of the logs there are mosses growing and then others have small shrubs etc. Some had a layer of muck left there by the beavers and musk rats etc. So from my experience I would say that this is a common way that sundews grow in our northern lakes. Hi KD Yes I had posted pictures like this from last summer, see: ocps.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=photos&action=display&thread=3866Those clumps of dews are Intermedia, I have never seen Anglica yet in the wild I do grow Anglica here at home so I do know a little bit what they should look like, but so far no luck in the great outdoors.
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Post by mabudon on Aug 23, 2010 11:06:30 GMT -5
Truly excellent pics Doug, thanks for sharing!! The first time I saw CPs in the wild I was in Algonquin- I had actually been stepping on them for a while when I dropped something and had to pick it up and realized the ground was literally 95% sundews- woops!
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Post by purpman on Aug 23, 2010 16:39:34 GMT -5
I've only seen Anglica in one place... It it grew among mats of intermedia it was like finding a needle in a haystack
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Post by mabudon on Aug 23, 2010 16:49:33 GMT -5
Ha purpman I remember fondly your dogged determination to find one at that park I have since forgotten the name of, leaving me and Jay to keep six, and your disappointment at not finding them that day
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Post by doug on Aug 23, 2010 19:51:55 GMT -5
Thanks for all the kind words about my pictures I have to correct one thing I said. I did see Anglica in the wild in Newfoundland but not in Ontario.
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