Lucky duck. I had two hoya blooms starting this year... and both fell off before they bloomed. They appear to be super fragile, ceiling fan blew one of them off, the other got knocked off when I was spraying it for fungus gnats.
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Absolutely! I need to know more about my own local stuff (I'm in New England. We have trees and poison ivy, so that's all I usually identify).
The Pine Barrens have a bunch of cool stuff! at least two different Drosera - Intermedia and Rotundifolia. Also Sarracenia (North American Pitcher Plants) and Utricularia (Bladderworts) - one of Charles Darwin's favorite carnivores - those little dudes live around most of the world except Antarctica. That seems like a super hiking spot, I'll have to visit there with the wife and go on a carnivore expedition.
Edit - wife is super excited to go, and we're going to try to get there this year! Thank you so much! This is the kind of stuff I found on reddit, and I'm glad to find it here on Lemmy ;)
Working from home helps, you can notice stuff right away. Once you get it zeroed in, a lot of it is just water and make sure the timer ticks on for the light.
Yup! Drosera is a sundew! It sounds pretentious AF, but a lot of plant nerds stick to Latin names because some plant common names get thrown around to plants that aren't part of that genus or species, and that causes some problems researching care and needs of the plant. After a while you just stop thinking about it.
If I had a nickel for everything named a cactus that isn't...
If you want to know more, just ask! I'll talk about carnivorous stuff all damn day.
Deleted four accounts of 3-11 years. Yup. Bye. I ain't waiting around to see reddit turn into "myspace after tom"
I deleted one 11 year account and 3 three year accounts. The amount of absolute repeat garbage bots on all my homepage, and throughout popular was so bad, it just became Facebook, but angrier.
An average orca weights 6600 to 8800 pounds. Using 7700 pounds as the weight of our orca to bananafy, at 3 bananas per pound = 23,100 bananas per orca.
So the asteroid is 1,940,400 bananas.
Ducks and witches are the same weight.
Weirdest plant I own, Drosera Binata (which is carnivorous), I have two and a half Nepenthes (tropical pitcher plants, wife has one I take care of), some common "Spoon Sundew" Drosera Spatulata, a couple of Pinguiculas, and a Utricularia, those are my carnivorous ones. They are definitely the weirder ones, the rest are commonplace collector basics (begonia, orchid, calatheas, pothos, etc.).
I have a shot of my U. Reniformis and D. Binata, https://lemmy.world/post/79348 I don't know if that will work - first week here.
Thanks for the heads up! Kbin was still wonky when I tried to get on it earlier, so I've been letting it be until the reddit exodus.
Currently babying the crap out of a small pile of carnivorous plants, watching over a random array of succulents, pothos, and other household favorites. I also am the "caretaker" of the wife's small pile of plants, which are more cactus and spices.
I'm terrified of getting into orchids, and heavier into begonias because of how hard I got into carnivores. I have one of each that are doing well.
I've also got a maranta and calathea that are doing pretty well (today), and a begonia that is now on speaking terms with me after I didn't make its days any easier. We're learning together. I'm learning how to take care of her, and she's learning that I'm an idiot.
Yup. Both of mine were on my carnosa. Maybe later this year (once the fans are off).