Friday, March 30, 2018

Pawpaw Flower Buds in Late March 2018




About a week ago I took a look at the pawpaw trees and saw that the flower buds on the KSU-Atwood are growing and showing a little green.



For Christmas I got NJ a couple Monkey Jar plants, which we had seen over the summer at the Hortus Botanicus Leiden in the Netherlands. I bought them from Pearl River Exotics.

We've been glad that the plants have grown a bit and have made the "monkey jar" features that we admired in Leiden. They're passively carnivorous or insectivorous I guess, since the "jar" opens and there's water at the bottom and insects get trapped in the water. 





And then the plant digests the insects and uses whatever small nutrients they offer. Good to see it already working.

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