Bog plant

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Bog plant

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Bog Plant

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Looks carnivorous. Nice image.

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Sarracenia flava, I think. With hairs to test your IQ!
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Post by Sumguy01 »

:smt038 Very nice.
Thanks for sharing.

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Post by leonardturner »

Thanks, Mike and Sumguy. Chris, thanks for the id, but even after all these decades, I am daunted by the common language which separates us: hairs to test my IQ?? What does it mean?

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Post by ChrisR »

Hooker zones, Leonard - that's all.
No?
:D :D :D

No I wasn't referring to your facial decoration or Intelligence Quotient, but the fine hairs on the inside of the hood of these fascinating plants. They're intended, presumably, to be hard to see by the prey, so they can be hard to photograph. It needs good Image Quality.
There's an excellent website around here:

http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5520.html

and the Hooker zones are described on the next page:
http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5521.html
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Post by rjlittlefield »

Leonard, an excellent photograph! I am curious about the background. I see this is posted in Technical and Studio, but am I looking at the plant's growing environment, or something else?

Chris, I got about the hairs on the hood, but I assumed you were talking about the Intelligence Quotient of the prey! Separated by a common language indeed!

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Post by leonardturner »

Thanks, Chris, all is clear now! Every discipline has its own language and abbreviations (I remember well when my summary of some of the evening's endeavours might start out "WDWN WF in NAD, C/O DOE" or some such.

Rik, thank you as well; you are quite correct, and I was mistaken: this was shot outdoors and shouldn't have been posted in T and S. A little time has passed since it was shot, and memory failed me. Good catch!

Leonard

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This is even more impressive as a field shot!

I have moved the thread to Nature Photography.

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