I have been fascinated by plants since I was a little boy. I loved gardening with my mother and grandfather. My Poppy had a fantastic vegetable garden. I discovered my first carnivorous plant, The Venus Fly Trap ( Carnivora ) while shopping in Woolworth’s at 8 years old. My mother bought it for me and I fed it flies and mosquitos. I started to read about these plants. Decades later as an herbalist I began to buy all the books on Carnivorous Plants. I discovered the Pitcher plants by visiting and listening to Red Leaf Exotics , forming in Brooklyn NY and now in Tennessee
Recently a new carnivorous plant has been discovered. There has not been a new in over twenty years. A pretty little white flower that grows near urban centers of the Pacific Northwest is the newest carnivorous plant. It is the bog-dwelling western false asphodel, Triantha occidentalis. It was discovered in Vancouver . Fewer than 1,000 plant species are carnivorous, and these plants tend to live in places with abundant sun and water but nutrient-poor soil.
I will continue to read about this new plant discovery . Learning keeps our minds active
Until tomorrow…