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What do you think, plant or alien...?!!! Anybody's guess...

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By Flcrazy


 What do you think,  plant or alien...?!!! Anybody's guess... (Aristolochia fimbriata    white veined dutchman's pipe)



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It reminds me a of a carnivorous plant called "pitcher plant". The leave resemble something like cyclamen or nasturtium, though...Check them out pitcher plant here :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcher_plant

13 Sep, 2008

 

Yeah, It does look like that too... glad I'm not a fly...lol

13 Sep, 2008

 

I love the unusual and this truly is THAT. Great picture.

13 Sep, 2008

 

Very pretty! It reminds me a little, actually - a lot, of a ceropegia.

13 Sep, 2008

 

Very unusual, do you think it could devour slugs?

13 Sep, 2008

Ams
Ams
 

Looks like a caterpillar carrying a hairy kidney bean to me.

13 Sep, 2008

 

I tried to grow Dutchman's Pipe from seed this year and none of them germinted. Bummer. This is fabulous !

This is a host plant for Pipevine Swallowtails also.

19 Sep, 2008

 

Yes Rosalieg, I had to look that up,and It does look like a ceropegia. I'm going to show that one to my sister-in-law she loves house plants.
Wow Ams, all I can say is, I love your imagination. I'm still trying to see that for myself,.... this might take awhile !... lol

21 Sep, 2008



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