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dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 1 week agoI was wondering about that, I saw a botanist’s video about a carnivorous plant nursery and he mentioned plants like VFTs and pitcher plants evolved in high-precipitation areas where the soil has been leached of nutrients.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ve seen both conditions with pitcher plants, don’t know what to think.
The swamp down the street is packed with nutrients, has to be, and that’s where I’ve seen them thrive. OTOH, I’ve seen fields of them where it’s marshy, but I’d guess the soil is thin like everywhere else around here.
boogetyboo@aussie.zone 1 week ago
What country/region is this? If you don’t mind me asking
sploosh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Given the way they’re describing it, US south/southeast. The pitcher plants that grow there grow in marshes and swampy grasslands are from there. Pitcher plants elsewhere in the world are a different type all together, and are generally epiphytes or close to it.
Except Australia and certain south American highlands. Or the pacific northest US. There are like 4 families of pitcher plants, only two of which are closely related (counting sarracenia and darlingtonia together with heliamphora in the family and nepenthes and cephalotus on their own).
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
NW Florida. Not legal to grab them, but I’ve moved some to my swampy camp in the boondocks. Growing some in a buried trashcan pond, getting seeds to spread around.