Wild carnivorous plants - Albany pitcher plant.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- We're starting a new series of videos today on Western Australian carnivorous plants!
First off we have the iconic Albany pitcher plant, Cephalotus follicularis and its strange little companion Badisis ambulans the flightless fly.
A big thank you to Dr Adam Cross for sharing his amazing knowledge of this little plant and to allowing me to film some of his collection of carnivorous plants.
I would also like to assure my viewers that my boots were scrubbed, clean and sanitised before stepping into that swamp area as part of my hiker hygiene for preventing dieback spread.
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Great plants, I just got my first one a few months ago. I've been growing carnivorous plants for 13 years.
Hell yeah Tommy.
That's the reason, among others, why I'm loving Australia since decades, "unfortunately" from the other side of the world 😉.
Cheers from Vienna/Austria.
love these exotic plants even better to see in their native habitat ..hope you can do more as i know there are loads of species in aussie land 👍
It is a wonderful thing to see them in their natural habitat.
I'm sure I will be doing a lot more plants this season. I plan to find a few more of our rare and unique orchids this year
Very informative, awesome video mate! Such a cool plant! This ant mimics are unreal!
Thank you! Yes, that mimic is very cryptic and does a great job of hiding in plain sight
Wow, you must be all the way south near Albany right now
Always moving around the south west. So many great things to see!
Brilliant video as usual well done.
So awesome! I'm visiting Albany next week... Maybe I'll find some!
Keep your eyes peeled, you never know your luck.
Incredible shots! What an amazing onsite look that not many people will ever get to see, Thankyou for sharing :)
Glad you enjoyed it Mason & Lexi, we have plenty more unusual things to see out here in Western Australia. Lots more material to come.
Really interesting stuff, keem em coming!
Thanks, will do
How about filming other native CP's.....like Drosera Binata? Are they Australia? 👍
Very interesting, and the fly seems to be a mimic of Iridomyrmex conifer (the ants you see scurrying around earlier in the video).
Thanks for the ID Andrea. It makes sense that it would be a mimic to the dominant ant species in that habitat.
Amazing😲
Thanks Matt, lots of lots of kms and hours in this one!
I’m sure I seen pitcher plants in the wild somewhere between Busselton and Augusta around a year and a half ago. Looked different to these, much darker. Can’t put my finger on exactly where though. Are there other species in WA?
that would be within their distribution, and they are the only species in their family worldwide, so so it's quite likely it was these that you saw.
Oh my goodness. This is the first time I've ever seen or heard of an ant mimic fly. Tfs! This plant is truly amazing. It is so sad about these plants being poached. In my area, we used to have wild native VFT, drosera, and sarracenia until they were poached into extinction. I was only ever able to see a tiny clump of wild sundew here as a little girl just once in my lifetime. Haven't seen another since. We had otters and other wildlife here that disappeared in my lifetime too. So very sad.
That's very sad Kat, and unfortunatly all too common.
I hope that the pressures on this and other species like it can be managed so that it will be around for future generations.
Very cool!
Thanks Victoria! Maybe I'll have to do an episode on succulents some time for you. 🙂
Hahaha you know I'd watch it on repeat 😂
Well now I'm definitely going to do one 😁
Cool video and the plant/fly relationship is quite interesting. What is the soil type that the plants grow in in their natural habitat?
usually the soil is peaty but at this location it is quite unusual coarse quartz sand. You can see it it in the video a bit