Sarracenia psittacina
Parrot pitcher plant ( Sarracenia psittacina )
The parrot pitcher plant ( Sarracenia psittacina ) is a carnivorous plant from the family of Pitcher plants ( Sarraceniaceae ). It is in the far southeast of the U.S. domesticated and under the hose plants of unusual shape.
Description
The rhizome is thick up to 1 centimeter and grows vertically in the rule. Typical of the plant are arranged in a horizontal basal rosette, tubular pipes, at the end of a hollow semi-circular hood is. The tubes are 10 to 25, rarely up to 40 inches long and 1-4 inches wide. At its end there is achszugewandten center a small, inward open collar. The Ala 2 to 35 millimeters wide, it widens wave from Blattansatz forth to the center and then back to the narrow outer end. The hoses are per - dyed up by shading, different, green with a very strong shading, otherwise the foliage is reddish- green to deep red, with red veins and white, so-called areoles from the hood to the upper end of the tube. The latter can light gets into the interior and thus disorient captured prey, to further support of fishing, the interior of the tubes a long setae on, let the tubes work like traps.
The slightly sweet smelling, deep red flowers appear in late March to May and sitting at a 25 to 45 cm long flower stems. The 2 to 4 inches in diameter measured flowers have 2 to 3 inches long, rounded petals ( petals ), the sepals are also spotted deep red and light.
Dissemination
It is native to the southeastern coast of the United States from southeastern Georgia on the Florida Panhandle down to the extreme southeastern Louisiana. The plant prefers temporarily flooded margins of ponds or small streams to flood times she lives semi-aquatic.
Systematics and botanical history
The species was first described in 1803 by André Michaux. The species name is derived from the Greek psittakos for " parrot " and refers to the resemblance of the leaves with the beak of a parrot. Untertaxa missing. Morphologically is the type of Cobra Lily Darlingtonia californica close whether this indicates an evolutionary relationship, is not sufficiently explored.