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Gallery: Seeds
Date submitted: May 13, 2024
Caption: Scale bar is 0.1mm.
Photo location: Work Nikon Microscope
Date of photo: 2020-10-26

Gallery: Emerging Growth
Date submitted: May 13, 2024
Caption: Middle left is an orchid. I forget which. Drosera removed.
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: 2020-05-02

Gallery: Emerging Growth
Date submitted: May 13, 2024
Caption: Pot contains 3 emerging Drosera filiformis middle and right. Purple-red leaves are Hypericum canadense. Balance Narthecium.
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: 2020-04-18

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: May 13, 2024
Caption: This plant is in a 4" pot for scale.
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: 2020-07-04

Gallery: Seed pods or heads
Date submitted: May 13, 2024
Caption: V. lanceolata ripening seed pod & remains of burst pod
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: 2020-11-10

Gallery: Leaves
Date submitted: May 13, 2024
Caption: Obtained as a weed in a pot of Sarracenia minor purchased at an MACPS auction. Spreads easily. The seeds are explosively thrown out by the bursting seed pod when ripe. You have to bag the pollinated blooms to capture the seeds.
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: 2020-05-31

Gallery: Seeds
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Caption: Scale bar is 0.1mm.
Photo location: Work Nikon Microscope
Date of photo: Oct 12, 2020

Gallery: Emerging Growth
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Caption: New growth for the year is emerging. These plants survive in my yard unprotected in the winter.
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: May 5, 2020

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Caption: The Xyris difformis var. difformis came to me as "weeds" in a Sarracenia I bought at a MACPS auction. The pitcher plant was grown in the NJ Pinelands area.
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: Aug. 10, 2019

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: Oct 12, 2020

Gallery: Seeds
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Caption: Scale bar is 0.1 mm long.
Photo location: Work Nikon Microscope
Date of photo: Oct 12, 2020

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Caption: Drosera x tokaiensis is a Japanese natural hybrid between D. rotundifolia x D. spatulata. It does not form a hibernaculum. Individual plants are about 1.5" in diameter.
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: Oct 12, 2020

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Photo location: Work emersed jars
Date of photo: June 10, 2009

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Caption: This photo was taken 13 months after planting with a few C. hudoroi. It is fully established and sending out offsets via runners. This is a very vigorously growing plant.
Photo location: Work 10 Gal Aquarium
Date of photo: 2015-03-24

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Caption: C. hudoroi as received from a friend. This Crypt. does very well in hard alkaline water. It is growing in a capped mineralized soil substrate here.
Photo location: Work 10 Gal Aquarium
Date of photo: 2014-02-25

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Photo location: Work emersed jars
Date of photo: 2018-01-09

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: May 6, 2024
Caption: I bought these plants at Fish Town USA in Ramsey, NJ. They were grown emersed in jars with artificial light in the winter and diffused natural light in the other seasons. I do not have them anymore.
Photo location: Work emersed jars
Date of photo: 2018-02-13

Gallery: Habitat view
Date submitted: May 4, 2024
Caption: The cacti are just resuming growth after winter. They are growing on a full sun rock ledge facing south with 180 degrees of open space in front of them. Maximum sun and in shallow soil right at the edge of the outcrop.
Photo location: Cactus Ledge on the Vista Loop Trail in Ramapo Valley County Reservation, Mahwah, NJ
Date of photo: 2024-03-29

Gallery: Entire plant
Date submitted: May 2, 2024
Caption: The area where the plant grew too fast is clearly seen right near the offset. I bought this plant in 2008 from Fred Katterman at a CCSS Spring Show.
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: May 1, 2024

Gallery: Bloom
Date submitted: May 2, 2024
Caption: I bought this cactus from Fred Katterman at a Conn Cactus and Succulent Society Spring Show in 2008. It has an atypical growth band right near the atypical offset. I attribute those defects to my lack of knowledge in proper care for this plant.
Photo location: Bloomingdale, NJ
Date of photo: May 1, 2024