Sarracenia sp. are too cool. We have Sarracenia purpurea that grows wildly here. We're absolutely lousy with them.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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What's that second picture? A flower? A fruit?
Yup, that is its flower.
Here's a more complete picture of one
Nice! Thanks!
I’d love to see some of these in their natural habitat some day!
They're mostly located on the East coast and Northern Midwest US. They're all over Canada. Most states have some carnivorous plants though. The one I really want to find in the wild is Darlingtonia californica the cobra lilly. It's an absolutely gorgeous plant, but only found in Northern California and parts of Oregon.
They even have forked tongues!
These plants are very cool, I used them as inspiration for one of the plants in my game!
Hey! How's the game coming along?
Slow but good! I'm going to spend my long holiday adding the rest of the plant models so I can get it to playtesters
Awesome! Good luck on the playtest!
Thank you!
That's really cool! I didn't know that, thanks for sharing and explaining
For some more info on it, the purple you see is from pigments called anthocyanins (the same stuff that makes blueberries blue!). They’ve shown to have antioxidant properties in vitro. In plants they can act similar to melanin, acting as a solar protectant as you can see in OPs photo, basically it’s the plant “tanning”. Pretty cool stuff! Theres tons more to learn about anthocyanins but I’ll leave that up to you to discover.
The proof of this theorem is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yours is a lot more upbeat, though. Thanks for the encouragement!
This is a great demonstration! Lovely sarracenia. How tall are these pitchers?
The ones in the picture are around 30cm, but there's a super long one that is bent. I think that something went wrong with that one.
I think it's written like that
Do you keep them indoors all the time?
How do you handle the very high sunlight and hibernation requirements?
They are outdoors 90% of the time! I only bring them indoors when the night is going to be extremely cold.
They are on a south facing balcony, they get light all day. I don't do anything about hibernation, but they don't seem upset. I mean, this is their second or third year with me.
I love these!
sunstressed
Is there a space missing in that? A hyphen?