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First full true upper pitcher on Nepenthes platychila, famed for its funnel shaped traps and broad, perfectly smooth, stripey peristome. Last photos of the previous trap shows how much it will darken in the lip.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:18 AM
carltoncarnivores.bsky.social
Nepenthes robcantleyi x lowii and x ephippiata; one is dark and slender, the other lighter and stripier but also tubby. Both should look amazing when mature
#nepenthes #carnivorousplants #botany #strangeplants #plants #horticulture #botany
Dark red-purple trap of robcantleyi x lowii hanging over the pot edge Lighter green and red robcantleyi x ephippiata trap with more ridged, striped peristome and broader wings
January 5, 2026 at 12:32 AM
carltoncarnivores.bsky.social
Blumenbachia insignis, a tricolor flowering nettle from South America. Requires gloves to handle but has beautiful blooms and lush foliage.
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Tricolor flower with four petals shaped like deep upside down boats, framed by the serrated and hairy leaves. Foliage of the nettle with rich green and clusters of flower buds at the tips of the stems.
December 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
stephendcomics.bsky.social
287 - Something About Shrooms and Tripping
How else are we supposed to react to this?
#SDComics #BreathOfTheWild #CentralHyrule #ThundraPlateau #firstimpression #thunderstorm #strangeplants #mushrooms #toostrange #whatisthat
Link sees the Thundra Plateau in the distance, a place with large vegetation that look like mushrooms and a localized thunderstorm blowing over it endlessly. Link: ... What in the fuck am I looking at here?
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
concretebotany.bsky.social
Slender Snakecotton (Froelichia gracilis) shot in the middle of Columbus Boulevard under the Walt Whitman Bridge, date uncertain.
#Wildflowers #WeirdPlants #StrangePlants
September 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
embroncaniston.bsky.social
Planty post: Staghorn Fern got a much-needed move from the tiny pot it was swallowing to a mounted panel, and finally gave my vanilla orchid something to clamber properly on.
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Staghorn fern showing the fronds beginning to branch to show where it gets its name. The grasping sheet frond at the base of the fern, which helps them cling to tree branches and cliffs. These fronds have a veiny, netlike pattern across them. A vanilla orchid twisted around a thrown-together pole of coco strands, chips, and moss
September 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
embroncaniston.bsky.social
If it wasn’t already obvious, I love growing weird things. And the latest weird thing to start fruiting: hedgehog cucumber (leaves more edible than the fruits are).
#plants #strangeplants #botany #gardening #horticulture
Close up look at hedgehog cucumber fruit, displaying the hundreds of soft bristles covering it. Aniother bristly fruit hanging off the vine and just above the soil
July 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
embroncaniston.bsky.social
There’s a stench in the basement…because one of the corpse flowers is blooming again!
This is the most common, easiest species in cultivation, but still impressive…and impressively horrid when it warms up.
Amorphophallus konjac
#corpseflower #flowers #plants #strangeplants #botany #plantfur #garden
Full top of the flower scape of Amorphophallus konjac, fleshy maroon spathe flaring out around the tall, also maroon spear-shaped spadix. Looking down inside the scape at the actual tiny flowers within the spathe, at the bottom of the spadix.
February 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM