@cfollicularis
Genomics, curriculum, STEM ed 🧬 | Supporting #GenomicsEducation & #UndergraduateResearch | Native plant gardener & #CarnivorousPlant collector | Botanical artist (ink & watercolor) | #STEMeducation & #BotanicalArt | He/him/his 🏳️🌈
Numerous small orchid-like flowers on slender spikes.
This species occurs across a wide geographic range, including tropical and Southern Africa, Madagascar, Mexico, and other Latin American countries. Oddly enough, two other bladderwort species, U. pubescens and U. simulans, occupy similar distributions.
White and purple flower with a yellow spot in the center of the lower lip.
Last #UtriculariaTuesday, I shared pics of Utricularia livida ‘Merrie Heart,’ a cultivar from Mexico. Here is another clone of U. livida (most likely from Central or Southern Africa).
#Utricularia #Bladderwort #Lentibulariacea #CarnivorousPlants
A fully opened pitcher displays its waxy inner surface. The pitcher lid is dried and papery at the tip.
A mottled red pitcher plant trap with a flattened, green peristome dangles from the end of a short tendril.
#Nepenthes mirabilis, a member of the #Nepenthaceae sometimes referred to as the common swamp pitcher-plant, is the most widespread species in the genus. This plant was sold to me as Nepenthes mirabilis ‘Red’. It features a mottled red pitcher body.
#PitcherPlant #CarnivorousPlants #bloomscrolling
A cat gazes into the camera, one eye reflecting metallic green light.
Happy #Caturday!
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A ruffled purple and white flower viewed from above.
The flowers on each spike last for several weeks, and it blooms almost constantly if it receives enough light. I’ll share pics of my other U. livida specimen next Tuesday.
#Utricularia #Bladderwort #Lentibulariacea #CarnivorousPlants
Purple and white orchid-like flower on a slender, green spike. The edge of the lower lip is slightly ruffled.
Anyone else growing bladderworts? For this #UtriculariaTuesday, meet Utricularia ‘Merrie Heart,’ a cultivar of U. livida from Mexico. This plant spreads vigorously, escaping through the drainage holes at the bottom of its pot.
A blind refugee. Miles from home. CBP abandoned him in the cold. Now he’s dead.
This is Trump’s America.
Flash photo of a cluster of ghost pipes in bloom
Ghost pipe (Monotopa uniflora)
Kuwohi, July 2025
#kodakpixpro #wnc #naturephotography #kuwohi #ghostpipe #parasiticplant
Closeup of pink sundew with shimmering dew across its tendrils
Pink sundew (Drosera capillaris)
1.2.26 Central FL
#carnivorousplants #sundew #carnivorousplantsinsitu
Nepenthes jacquelineae
The carnivorous Lesser Bladderwort, Utricularia minor, in a bog pool on a Dorset heath. #wildflowerhour
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A harry pitcher with prominent wings running down its front and a broad, yellow-and-red-striped peristome. The pitcher body blushes orangish-pink in places exposed to the greatest amount of light. The bottom of the lid glistens with nectar.
#Nepenthes veitchii “Yellow x Striped”
#PitcherPlant #CarnivorousPlants #Nepenthaceae
Side view of a honey bee facing left, watercolour illustration with white background.
Honey bee illustrated in flight, going diagonally from bottom left to top right. Cut to white with legs all visible and wings outstretched.
I illustrated these #honeybees last week for a chinaware company
Sorting out fur from stripe, wing vein position, and antennal segments is always tricky; but trying to be accurate matters
Loved this job, a joy to spend some quality time with #Apismellifera
#naturalhistoryillustration #sciart
Hazel Corylus avellana leaves catkins, and nuts botanical illustration
This is the #Hazel #Corylus avellana. It's often a compositional challenge showing all stages of a plant in one #botanicalillustration; flowers, fruit and sometimes autumn leaf colour too - but having drooping catkins, & twigs you can rearrange helps
Day 11 #artadventcalendar #sciart #🐡
Illustration of Zygopetalum clayii orchids featuring five flowers with dark purple petals marked by lighter green edges and central veins, and broad, pleated lavender lips. The plant has elongated, lance-shaped green leaves emerging from bulb-like pseudobulbs at the base. The flowers are arranged on tall, slender green stems with some brown tips, depicted on a neutral background typical of 19th-century botanical art.
🌸 Orchid album: London: B. S. Williams, 1882-97.
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A water colour painting of yarrow, Achillea millefolium. It has a cluster of white flowers on top with a long stem, with alternating lobed leaves 🍃
New botanical illustration! 🌱
This is of yarrow, Achillea millefolium painted in water colour.
#art #plants #plantart #botany #botanical #yarrow #watercolour
Last call coming up ⏰
GEP Student Symposium registration closes tomorrow (Wed Feb 25 at 8pm CT).
Free, online, and open to all GEP students — presenting or not.
Join us Saturday Feb 28.
Register here: symposium.foragerone.com/gep-student-...
#UndergradResearch #Genomics #GEPstudents 🧬🖥
White and purple flower with an apron-like lip and a divided petal at the top, reminiscent of rabbit ears.
A flower nestled amongst numerous stolons and leaf like structures (actually expanded photosynthetic stems).
Utricularia sandersonii stems exploring moss and soil.
It’s #UtriculariaTuesday!
#Utricularia sandersonii ‘Blue’ 🐇🌱
#Bladderwort #Lentibulariaceae #CarnivorousPlants
The march started at Whittier Park, a few blocks from where Alex Pretti was killed, and ended at the scene of the shooting on Nicollet Avenue. Organizers said they wanted to honor and remember Pretti, and the community brought together in the wake of his death.
Pinguicula filifolia
My first Cuban species!
#pinguicula #butterwort #carnivorousplants
Pinguicula martinezii
#pinguicula #butterwort #carnivorousplants
Narrow-lipped, green pitcher with faint red mottling on the inside and a reddish blush on the outside. The pitcher is narrow, tall, and without distinct wings (though there are two ridges running down the front).
#Nepenthes reinwardtiana
#PitcherPlant #Nepenthaceae #CarnivorousPlant #bloomscrolling
Ridiculously adorable bird with black cap, white cheek, tiny bill and very floofy buff-coloured belly is perched on a bare branch in profile facing left. The belly floof is illuminated by the winter sun.
A cold day brings much enfloofenation. BEHOLD the mighty Black-capped Chickadee
#borb #birds 🌿
