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Some Bee Orchids near my hometown
Sometime, you don't have to travel thousands of kilometres to admire amazing plants. Yesterday with a good friend of mine, we investigated some grassy areas near the city where I live here in northern...
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Herping in the French Pyrénées: meeting with a young Natrix snake
Hi everyone,The various posts I am supposed to publish on my late fieldtrip in Borneo will have to wait. I will make the endeavour later in the year. I am busy right now being in family vacations right...
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Salamandra salamandra fastuosa : a family quest in a Pyrenean mountain forest.
One of the reasons of our vacations in the French Pyrénées was to observe in situ a wonderful subspecies of fire salamander that is living in the surrounding montane forests. Called Salamandra...
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Calotriton asper, the Pyrenean newt.
The Pyrenean newt, also called the Pyrenean brook salamander, refers to a quite rare species of Caudata: Calotriton asper.It is one of the two amphibians I wanted to see the most during my sojourn here...
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Hunting Pinguicula grandiflora in the French Pyrénées.
The word 'Hunting' might seem inappropriate for a plant but I have been literally chasing this group of carnivorous plants during the last two weeks that I spent in the Pyrénées.My interest for the...
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Nepenthes vieillardii is very variable... but not in cultivation!
While I was checking all the plants in the house and conservatory prior to my forthcoming departure in Cambodia (I'm leaving next Tuesday for three weeks of botanical exploration), I decided to pause...
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Back from my 2016 botanical trip in Cambodia.
Hello everyone,I just returned from a 2 weeks botanical expedition in western Cambodia. Prospections were undertaken on behalf of both Paris Herbarium (MNHN) and Phnom Penh University (RUPP) in order...
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Botanical illustrations for new Carnivorous Plant book by Tim Bailey &...
A few months ago, I provided a few botanical drawings for a new Redfern Natural History book called Carnivorous Plants or Ireland and Britain written by Tim Bailey and Stewart McPherson. Now that the...
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Two weeks in Cambodia in a single poster.
While I have to prepare resuming my work as a teacher, my thoughts are still lingering in the kingdom of Cambodia that I left only three days ago. My friend Jeremy just granted me with this beautiful...
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Hail to the poachers !
Dear poacher,Dear carnivorous plant enthusiast,On this lovely Sunday morning, here in France, I was about to write a short and nice post on the cute Utricularia odorata that I recently had the chance...
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The lovely Utricularia odorata.
Traveling in Cambodia on July-August always mean that I will at one point stumble into Utricularia odorata, a lovely species with vibrant yellow flowers. It is really widespread in former Indochina...
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Drosera indica, the dancing sundew.
Drosera indica, the sundew from India. Actually this sundew is widespread acroos south-east Asia and Australia as well. I had on my last trip in Cambodia, less than 2 weeks ago, the chance to observe...
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Carpets of Nepenthes ampullaria in Mulu National park, Borneo.
Earlier this year, in April and March, I was invited to join a Redfern expedition as co-leader for a group of Orchid enthusiasts. We also included some pitcher plants sightseeing (is that really a...
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The variation of Nepenthes ampullaria.
In addition to the post I published yesterday, here is a selection of photographs showing the color variation in Nepenthes ampullaria. I don't know why the color of this species is so variable while...
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Welcome to Spathoglottis kimballiana!
Last March and April in Borneo, on Mount Trus Madi, on Mount Tambuyukon and on Mount Alab, I had the chance to observe several beautiful specimens of a beautiful yellow flowered orchid. I knew it...
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Two Drosera in the same pot : a species and a hybrid.
I usually do not grow man-made Drosera hybrids as I like to focus on Nature creations but I have always made an exception for the plant below. It is a hybrid between two South-African species : Drosera...
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Drosera (filiformis var). tracyi
This is a sundew species I'm fond of. I never how to exactly refer to it since I know some people regard it as a mere variety of Drosera filiformis while some other think it is a species on its own...
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Tillandsia straminea : beautiful and fragrant.
As some of you know, I grow quite a few Tillandsia species. While some are rather inconspicuous, others are real showstoppers. Tillandsia straminea fall to me in the latter category. In the wild in...
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Drosera falconeri coming out of dormancy.
And it is looking good ! So far, Drosera falconeri, this iconic species has not been difficult to me. Fingers crossed it will keep on going this way. The watering regime during the dormancy being the...
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Seedgrown Nepenthes pervillei : two years later.
June 2014 http://carnivorousockhom.blogspot.fr/2014/06/nepenthes-pervillei-ever-tried-ever.html?q=pervilleiI sew someNepenthes pervillei seeds. The species from the Seychelles island has always been my...
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