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Snap-tentacles: In 2005 we published in DAS TAUBLATT (Journal of the GFP) the ability of Drosera glanduligera to retract its unique marginal tentacles in sensationel 0.16 seconds, that is about as rapid as the Venus Flytrap snap-shuts. In 2007 we added a detailled publication that shows the quite different tentacles of the genus. The following documentaries feature several of our results.

Drosera glanduligera

Flower opening

Drosera glanduligera

Glue-tentacles time lapse

Drosera glanduligera

Snap-tentacles real time

Lecture on snap-tentacles part 1 (German language)

Lecture on snap-tentacles part 2 (German language)

Lecture on snap-tentacles part 3 (German language)

Lecture on snap-tentacles part 3/2 (German language)

Lecture on snap-tentacles part 3/31 (German language)

Drosera glanduligera

Speed contest - really amazing

Sarracenia alata

This movie has been edited from videos taken by the successful author of CP-books Stewart McPherson. Produced with his kind permission.

Sarracenia alata at Desoto Mississippi (USA)

Triggerplants (Stylidium)

The rapid moving flowers of this mainly Western Australian genus are very interesting. Stylidium is growing frequently in the same habitats as CP.

Stylidium: "If I had a hammer ..."

CP in Switzerland

The well known Swiss teacher and author Ruedi Fürst (CH) guides us through bogs in Switzerland, showing us sites with Aldrovanda vesiculosa and Sarracenia purpurea.

Aldrovanda in Switzerland

Sarracenia in Switzerland

CP-trip in Australia

2001 we travel again to Australia to film numerous CP. And at the Court House Hotel (Port Douglas) we are even able to record a wonderful blues-soundtrack for our resulting DVD.

Northern Queensland Part 1

Looking for a soundtrack

Northern Queensland Part 2

Drosera and Utricularia in Cairns

Northern Queensland Part 3

D. schizandra at Mount Bartle Frere

Australia 2001

CP of the Blue Mountains

Australia 2001

Utricularia gibba in Sydney

Australia 1995

Sarracenia: tropical dormancy

The ant massacre

In the 1990s an ant popoulace starts their mating flights through the floor of our tropical greenhouse. That becomes a big meal for our pitcher plant hybrid Sarracenia x catesbaei.

A hungry Sarracenia x catesbaei

A visit at Borneo Exotics in Sri Lanka

2004 we visit Robert Cantley's world largest nursery for tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes) in Sri Lanka. The film provides unique pictures of wonderful plants. On December 26 we are very lucky to survive the big tsunami without damage and are able to bring all our video tapes back home and to edit this successful movie.

Nepenthes @ Borneo Exotics

Tissue culture

Nepenthes @ Borneo Exotics

Lowland nurseries in Colombo

Nepenthes @ Borneo Exotics

Highland Nurseries Part 1

Nepenthes @ Borneo Exotics

Highland Nurseries Part 2

Nepenthes @ Borneo Exotics

Highland Nurseries Part 3

Nepenthes @ Borneo Exotics

Highland Nurseries Part 4

Sophisticated survival strategies

The anual Drosera species develop the most sophisticated trapping mechanisms in the genus to catch enough protein for a complete life-cycle within a single season. The footage contains pictures which have never been shown before.

Sophisticated survival strategies of the annual Drosera

The European CP Exchange And Exhibition (EEE)

These films provide impressions from the successful and much attended EEE events in Bonn (D, 2006) and Leiden (NL, 2007).

The EEE Bonn 2006

The EEE Leiden 2007

Two excerpts from our lecture for the EEE 2008 in Mira (Italy)

Enjoy you meal part 1&2 provide different entertaining and informative CP topics like our rodent eating N. truncata, or a detailled instruction for the photo-film enzyme test with Byblis, Drosera und Roridula.

Mice eating Nepenthes truncata

Enjoy your meal Part 1

Enzyme-testing with CP

Enjoy your meal Part 2

Triphyophyllum peltatum

Thanks to unique video shots from Sierra Leone (Africa) by Stewart McPherson and photos from a successful examination at the university of Würzburg (Germany) by Dr. Jan Schlauer & Dr. Heiko Rischer we are able to edit a film on the complete life cycle of the carnivorous tropical liana Triphyophyllum peltatum.

Triphyophyllum peltatum

Berlin impressions 2009

On a visit in Berlin, the German capitol city, we filmed animals at the wonderful zoo-aquarium and visited the chairman of the GFP regional group Berlin, Robert Gieseler. That day his chameleon has even to stand an encounter with a T-rex. No German language is necessary to enjoy the footage.

In the German language

One day in Berlin

The ICPS World Conference in Tokio 2002

The following 16 movies provide the lectures of many prominent CP-experts, held in Tokyo (Japan) at one of the most successful CP-events ever. An index with short descriptions of each part is available with the link below.

Index and short descriptions

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 1

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 2

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 3

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 4

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 5

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 6

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 7

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 8

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 9

The ICPS World Conference 2002 in Tokyo, Japan - Part 10