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seismic-tartness · 4 months

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This is made of glass

Blaschka Glass Models of Plants exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

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A photo of a large pitcher plant sculpture sitting in a case of glass and dark wood on a white background in a museum exhibit. The plant is photographed from below, so the plant's roots and bottom of the purple and yellow pitchers are in the foreground. The stems, leaves, and flowers are seen from below.

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A close-up photo of the leaves and pitchers, taken from above the pitchers.

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There are two signs to the left of the sculpture of the pitcher plant. The first and larger sign reads:

From the Hands of the Makers Over the course of fifty years, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, father and son, continually experimented with materials and methods that pushed the boundaries of glassworking. After his father's death in 1895, Rudolf continued to refine glass formulations, experiment with pigments and varnishes, and create his own palette of colored glass enamels. He produced this Great Pitcher Plant, Nepenthes maxima (right), the largest and most complicated model in the collection, using many of his innovative techniques.

The smaller plaque identifies the artwork and reads:

Nepenthes maxima (Great Pitcher Plant) Indonesia, New Guinea & Philippines by Rudolf Blauschka, 1906

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#how is this glass. how.#glass flowers #rudolf blauschka #art #glass art #nepenthes maxima #pitcher plants #carnivorous plants #harvard museum of natural history #cambridge ma #my photos #botany

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sillykeiki · 14 days

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Nepenthes maxima

First pitcher since I bought her last december. It's coming out beautiful.

#11-04-2024 #Nepenthes maxima #Nepenthes #carnivourousplant

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nagaino · 2 years

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#nepenthes maxima #Jindai Botanical Garden #Tokyo #ネペンテス・マキシマ #神代植物公園 #東京 #HD PENTAX-DA 20-40mm F2.8-4 Limited

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thebotanicalarcade · 8 months

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n19_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The floral magazine; London,L. Reeve & Co. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46013140

#Flower gardening #Flowers #Periodicals #Pictorial works #Smithsonian Libraries #bhl:page=46013140 #dc:identifier=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46013140 #plant #flower #flickr #botanical illustration #scientific illustration #pitcher plant #NEPENTHES SUPERBA #Nepenthes maxima #great pitcher-plant #carnivorous plants

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luna-is-lost · 24 days

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“DO NOT BOOP THE SKELETON!!!“ -PAPYRUS

Thank you, for the “boops“. It was cool to see tumblr have fun with this feature.

Also, thank you to @maxladcomics , @alsojnpie , @g0nefischin , @nepenthes-maxima and @nullneo for the “Super Boops“ (as well as @errorx429 for the evil boop)

The notification spam was worth it, thank you boopers

#undertale #papyrus #boop o meter #boop #super boop #thank you

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amadenchart · 4 months

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Caught a big prey!

This wasp (?) had been drinking the nectar of my nepenthes for days now and flying away, but it seems like it didn't escape today. >:)

Now my N. maxima has a big meal!

#nepenthes #pitcher plant #carnivorous plants

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clovers-carnivores · 7 months

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Nepenthes X lady pauline (maxima x talangensis)

#carnivorous plants #carnivourousplant #carnivorousplants #carnivorous plant #plantblr #gardening #my plants #pitcher plant #nepenthes

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bone-soup-explosion · 6 months

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here is the paintings:

nepenthes maxima. it's a pitcher plant, it gets its nutrients from insects that fall into its pitcher. Inside of the pitcher is digestive fluid that digests the insects. The nutrients are then absorbed through the walls of the pitcher. This is the lower pitcher.

This is also a nepenthes maxima, but an upper pitcher. nepenthes picher plants are a vine plant, and live on trees. The lower pitchers sit on the ground and the upper pitchers hang from the trees. The actual pitchers are specialized leaves. :)

(the picture is sideways, the black part points up)

this is a butterwort, it is also carnivorous, but this one is sticky. It's leaves have tiny little hairs on them with little sticky drops at the end. An insect gets stuck and then gets digested and the nutrients get digested and the corpse blows away. It's called butterwort because all the tiny little drops gives it a "butter like sheen" I guess??

This is darlingtonia californica or cobra lily. it's a kind of pitcher plant. The nectar on the "tongue" attracts insects, which crawl up into a small hole at the base of the "tongue" and fall into the digestive fluid and are digested.

this is a collection of plants, top left are the sticky ones (sundew, dewey pine, and butterwort), top right are the snap traps (Venus flytraps have trigger hairs on the inside of their traps and when more than one is triggered within a few seconds, the trap closes and digestive fluid is released into the trap to digest the insect), and bottom are the pitcher plants (nepenthes maxima, trumpet pitcher, bromelaid, sun pitcher, and cobra lily)

ooooooooh plants :D

#🪐#I stay up too late reading !!#cool art

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jeremiahsplants · 1 year

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Nepenthes maxima Papua Red! It’s such a stunning form of maxima! (at Colorado Springs, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpRsc4SONWw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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homophyte · 8 months

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alright maybe it’s becoming a problem but it’s really not my fault if my boss keeps ordering these and there keep being extras and they’re so so pretty.

so this is a N. gaya which is the first time i’m absolutely sure of what the species is because frankly it just looks like one. literally look up any gaya and this just looks like it. they don’t typically do that which is the weirdest part for me personally because i’m used to the little ones being just totally incomprehensible but this one is just. its a gaya. idk is that strange to anybody else i thought the 'pitchers change appearance over time' thing was like, a rule. whatever im glad to be certain and gayas are notoriously easy nepenthes so im hoping it fits along with the others in not being a huge pain in the ass. gaya is an interesting hybrid, a cross between khasiana and a ventricosa x maxima hybrid, which definitely contributes to its hybrid vigor. theyre also, fun fact, fucking GORGEOUS are you kidding???

i tried to take a time lapse of repotting this one but it didnt really come out well and my face was in it way too much but heres what we started with:

and heres the endproduct, in sphagnum/perlite, freshly rainwatered and misted.

this one was in much better shape than the (probably) bloody mary from the other week probably because the shipment is newer so it didnt have time to fester in the Unideal conditions at my job. unlike that one it was NOT in a death plug which was a welcome surprise and in fact had just BEAUTIFUL and extensive roots it was extremely lovely to see. what this one does have is a small moisture issue which could be two things 1) from shipping or 2) from the low humidity at work--probably the former because they havent really been there long enough to have a real problem with it, which i know because of THIS:

this is whats called 'small lid syndrome' which is exactly what it sounds like the lids and mouths of the pitchers are shrunken producing an overall deformed pitcher, which is generally accepted to be a sign of low humidity or rapid changes in humidity (like during shipping!). perfectly fixable so long as stable and high humidity is restored. deformed pitchers happen but nothings wrong with the plant, its just a response to the environment. i know for a fact i have better conditions for pitchers than at work so the next pitcher should be a-okay.

heres the final setup, next to the (probably) bloody mary.