Inhalt 2009 GB

CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOCIETIES

The World Conference 2010 takes place in Leiden (Netherlands).

AIPC

>EEE 2008 in Mira (I) pictures<

CPS Netherlands

>EEE 2007 in Leiden (NL) pictures<

TOPICS

After 11 years a special exhibition "carnivorous plants" takes again place from 2010 March 20 to 28 at the trade fair Regio-Messe Lörrach. Beside a display with large plants we will show movies from our HUNTING VEGGIES^®fund. Visitors' questions will find competent answers at an info-corner where also prominent members of the German CP-society GFP reside. Also a sale of guaranteed artificially propagated plants (nothing comes from nature!) from the large range of Germanys' oldest CP-nursery, Thomas Carow, will be organised by the fair authorities. You really should not miss this event. Open from 10 am to 6 pm, two days opened until 8 pm.

Detailed information provides the

Enjoy our CP-videos gratis on our embedded YOUTUBE screen.

TRIPLE "E" MEETS TRIPHYOPHYLLUM

Excerpts from our DVD now gratis on YouTube.

German translations

of modified excerpts from the amazing CP-books by Stewart McPherson.

Overview and links: All CP-books by the successful author.

Our report on the ICPS World Conference in Tokyo 2002 gratis on YouTube (16 parts). Now including index and short description.

Conference language Englisch

Yes, it is still alive:

Zoropsis spinimana, the invasive spider living in our greenhouse.

The mice-eating tropical pitcher plant

Our film "Enjoy Your Meal, Part 1" features this story meanwhile on YouTube.

You are welcome to add your comment to our guestbook at

www.Karnivorentreff.de

Drosera glanduligera: Missing link between sticky-trap and snap-trap?

We show unique pictures of the snap-tentacles.

Please find also our film on these tentacles on YouTube.

German language: Our video lecture on Drosera tentacles on YouTube (in 5 parts).

More CP videos

Some recommendable videos on CP in Florida are now provided by Brian Barnes (USA, ICPS Director of Conservation)

Don't hesitate to take a gratis glance: http://bbproductions.smugmug.com/gallery/8294231_FrmAA/1/543524115_v6A2a

Recommended books

Fascinating books by Stewart McPherson. We warmly recommend them!! New released: Pitcher Plants of the Old World Volume 1 & 2

(click on a cover)

A new spider arrives in Germany

In autumn 2008 we realised surprised that several spiders of species Zoropsis spinimana live latterly in our garden. Originally from Northern Africa and the Mediterranean this species is spreading north with the climate change and has first been detected in Germany only some five years ago. Since the nights became colder a large female immigrated into our tropical greenhouse, hunting for prey during the nights. If one comes up to the spider while it is sitting at the wall it shows a remarkable warning. It walks forward for some 20 cm, raises four frontfeet and shows its fangs (right picture). We have seen something like that only with large birdspiders until now. However, we decided to tolerate and to observe the immigrant. It did not harm anybody until now.

Since more than 10 years we find also several centipedes (Scutigera coleoptrata, right picture), called "Spinnenläufer" in the German language. Like Zoropsis this nocturnal predator also immigrated from the Mediterranean since temperatures are rising.

For more information (German language) click on the spider.

Nepenthes truncata caught 4 adult mice during 15 months at our greenhouse This confirms again the abillity of tropical pitcher plants to catch even small rodents. This story has been published 2007 by the "Weiler Zeitung", the "Oberbadisches Volksblatt" and even by Indonesias top horticultural journal "TRUBUS". Our detailled examination on the digestion of such large prey has been published in DAS TAUBLATT (GFP) in February 09, and can also soon be found in the English language on this website. The story has also been edited as film for our topic DVD TRIPLE "E" MEETS TRIPHYOPHYLLUM. >NOW ALSO ON YOUTUBE<
Mouse 1 April 07	Mouse 2 Juli 07
Mouse 3 April 08	Mouse 4 Juli 08
1^st article: Ratz fatz aus die Maus	Articolo 1 in italiano
English translation 1^st article	Artikel 2 in German: Die Truncata lässt das Mausen nicht
2^nd article: The digestion of rodents by Nepenthes truncata	Our DVD Triple E Meets Triphyophyllum

Our documentation on rapid moving marginal sundew tentacles

DVD DROSERA: Snap-Tentacles And Runway Lights

First time presented at the ICPS world-conference 2006 in Frostburg (USA), our film was meanwhile also available as free download on the internet. Actually for the first time we feature a sundew (D. glanduligera) in detail that moves its tentacles as fast as the famous Dionaea snap-traps. And our systematical examination of more than 100 world-wide Drosera species - focussing on their glandless marginal tentacles - brought up even more surprises, as references to the origin of the genus more than 100 Mio years ago on the past continent Gondwana. Our results have also been published in Australian, German, and Italian CP-journals (see links below) and we are still very pleased about the great interest and feedback. The DVD is available in the German and English language and provides all information in an entertaining way for everybody interested in botany, however, with a serious scientific background appreciated also by CP experts.

The Badische Zeitung (Germany) wrote 2006 August 11: (translated) ... a DVD on sundew herbs ... showing impressive macro- and microscope pictures with 200-fold magnification.

The amazing movement of the D. glanduligera snap-tentacles can meanwhile be seen on YouTube (click on text).

Drosera glanduligera:

Der Sonnentau mit Klapp-Tentakeln

(Das Taublatt)

Verborgene Vielfalt:

Die Schnelltentakel der Gattung Drosera

(Das Taublatt)

Clandestine Diversity:

Snap-Tentacles of Genus Drosera

(Carniflora Australis)

Drosera hartmeyerorum

Der Sonnentau mit Lichtreflektoren

(Das Taublatt)

La diversità nascosta:

i tentacoli a scatto nel genere Drosera

(AIPC Magazine)

Urtümliche und moderne Tentakel unter dem Mikroskop

(Das Taublatt)

DVD reviews

microscope pictures

DVD description

Just one feedback from the ICPS-Forum, USA

"Oh my goodness gracious! If you have not downloaded a bit torrent so you can view some of these videos, you are most assuredly cheating yourself! With the help of "Not a Number", I downloaded a bit torrent and some other application and was able to download and watch "Snap Tentacles and Runway Lights". Impressive would be an understatement. I'll be downloading more of their free videos, that's for sure. Please, treat yourself to one download. You won't be disappointed. A big thank you to each and every one of the people who made "Snap Tentacles and Runway Lights" available for free download."

DVD HUNTING VEGGIES^®featuring BORNEO EXOTICS (Sri Lanka, December 2004) >NOW ALSO ON YOUTUBE< Not only since we provided a free download on the internet, this movie found a very nice feedback. Robert Cantley himself guides us through his Nepenthes lowland nurseries near Colombo, and through his highland nurseries near Nuwara Eliya. His comments on numerous beautiful pitcher plants guarantee a really entertaining report, not only for Nepenthes experts. We also document the large- scale propagation by tissue culture at the sterile laboratory. Our footage provides numerous botanical titbits for every friend of tropical pitcher plants, however, also some very sad moments can be experienced, when hundreds of wonderful Nepenthes must be destroyed for licence reasons - incredible pictures that we received by Robert Cantley.
Vermehrung durch Zellkultur	Nepenthes ampullaria
Nepenthes distillatoria	Nepenthes ephippiata
Nepenthes lowii	Nepenthes villosa
Nepenthes veitchii	Nepenthes x trusmadiensis
more DVD screenshots	article Nepenthes@Borneo Exotics
Nepenthes truncata feeds on mice	Website BORNEO EXOTICS

Some hints for navigation

CP-info stand at the botanical gardens of the university Basel (CH)

Botanischer Garten der Universität Basel

On top of the page "Topics for quick navigation" shows all of our topics. Our "collection listing" informs about the species we grow. Green colour shows that a small amount is available. Details on available plants can be found at "offers". All plants have been propagated at our greenhouse from seeds, cuttings or by division. Nothing comes from nature! Our collection - exactly spoken those species protected by CITES - are registered at the Regierungspräsidium Freiburg (responsible authorities) since 1986. With "articles and reports" you will find our publications, translations, and also some book and DVD reviews.

We provide pictures from our collection, examinations with our USB-microscope, information on the unique trapping strategies of particular plants like Drosera glanduligera or Drosera hartmeyerorum. A page with changing content informs about our topic activities and shows even more photos. Or find information on some "TV-broadcasts" which we participated, like "Welt der Wunder" (Pro7 TV), "Treffpunkt im Grünen" (SWR TV) and even in Stefan Raab's famous "TVtotal" latenight show.

Or enjoy pictures of the European Carnivorous Plant Exchange and Exhibition (EEE) 2007 in Leiden (NL), information on Christa Hartmeyers' book "Gezeitenwechsel im Hochharz" (only German language), and we recommend several serious links.

Since March 2009 numerous of our CP-films can be found on YouTube. Just select a footage on the embedded video screen and enjoy our gratis movies with a simple mouseclick.

Topics for quick navigation		Our CP-movies on YouTube	"Gezeitenwechsel im Hochharz" a non-CP-book by Christa Hartmeyer	science award for VFT project by the Robert Bosch Stiftung	now released: the new CP-books by Stewart McPherson !!
guestbook	HUNTING VEGGIES^® DVDs		pictures CP collection	pictures DVD Borneo Exotics	pictures DVD Fleischimania
microscope pictures	snap-tentacles DVD		Drosera glanduligera Sundew with real snap-tentacles	Drosera hartmeyerorum Sundew with lens-tentacles	rodent eating Nepenthes
our CP-collection	articles and reports		pictures EEE Leiden 2007	Microscope pics snap-tentacles	Import Certificate
pictures & activities	TV broadcasts		plant offers	terms of business	recommended links