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Example of a sunstressed plant! (Sarracenia)

Some plants react to the sun much like humans do, "getting a tan". It's called sun stressing!

For this picture I kept one of Scylla's "mouths" in the shadow (indirect light), so it shows its natural green colour, but I made sure that the other "mouth" enjoyed as much (direct) sun as possible.

The plant is not upset about this experiment at all. It keeps pushing "mouths" like crazy.

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lemmy.world

Sarracenia sp. are too cool. We have Sarracenia purpurea that grows wildly here. We're absolutely lousy with them.

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lemmy.world

They're mostly located on the East coast and Northern Midwest US. They're all over Canada. Most states have some carnivorous plants though. The one I really want to find in the wild is Darlingtonia californica the cobra lilly. It's an absolutely gorgeous plant, but only found in Northern California and parts of Oregon.

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lemmy.world

That's really cool! I didn't know that, thanks for sharing and explaining

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lemmy.zip

For some more info on it, the purple you see is from pigments called anthocyanins (the same stuff that makes blueberries blue!). They’ve shown to have antioxidant properties in vitro. In plants they can act similar to melanin, acting as a solar protectant as you can see in OPs photo, basically it’s the plant “tanning”. Pretty cool stuff! Theres tons more to learn about anthocyanins but I’ll leave that up to you to discover.

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The proof of this theorem is left as an exercise for the reader.

Yours is a lot more upbeat, though. Thanks for the encouragement!

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beehaw.org

These plants are very cool, I used them as inspiration for one of the plants in my game!

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This is a great demonstration! Lovely sarracenia. How tall are these pitchers?

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The ones in the picture are around 30cm, but there's a super long one that is bent. I think that something went wrong with that one.

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They are outdoors 90% of the time! I only bring them indoors when the night is going to be extremely cold.

They are on a south facing balcony, they get light all day. I don't do anything about hibernation, but they don't seem upset. I mean, this is their second or third year with me.

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