A fairly large Dracaena I took out of a neighbors garbage about five years ago.
A terrified rat.
Duck weed, very excited that it grew everywhere.
This is the second and healthiest seedling of a necklace pod plant from Florida. Took more than enough years to get this to germinate.
A terrarium in a fifty gallon aquarium. I didn't notice the rat until I looked at the picture on the computer. Anyways. Some tropicals, two tiger lilies and a
Guzmania. I love epiphytes : D

The first photo is of a pair of dracaena, fairly common. The tall one is commonly, and incorrectly, called "Lucky Bamboo". It's not really bamboo. Also, it's pronounced DRA-SEE-NA.

Next is a small cactus of unknown species next to a Crassula ovata "Gollum" my doctor was kind enough to give me.

This is just a large shot of most of the succulents and cacti. Basic Crassula ovata in the middle, with two Sanseveria on the left side.

This is a small pitcher from the Nepenthes alata. The pitcher is not a separate organ, yet a change in the leaf structure. This one has what I think are several fruit flies in the bottom.

Another dracaena, I forget what it's called. Something about having golden speckle leaves. Actually quite nice looking. Also some variegated "bamboo" and a mahogany sapling.

What I think is Syngonium podophyllum along with a couple paper white which have already flowered.
To the left is a small African Aloe. Below are shots of new growth on a mahogany tree. I'm hoping it's Swietenia macrophylla, but not sure. This one is around two years old.

In these pictures you can see the work the apical meristem does as it creates new leaves, as well as new phloem being created on the outer surface.

The main picture is a Nepenthes alata. They hail from...India, I think. Basic pitcher plant, grows on a vine, attracts small insects with sweet smelling digestive juices, then kills and slowly dissolves their bodies. Took a couple weeks for the larger pitched to digest a wasp, same for a medium sized mealworm. Creates its own juices, needs to be kept CONSTANTLY moist, humidity level of around 60-80%, higher the better. This ones is in medium-low level lighting, and as such isn't doing all too well, the caps on the pitchers (can't remember specific name) have dried up on all but two. However, new pitchers are coming in and as it doesn't seem to be dying, I say it's a success. The plant in the lower left corner is Seaside Heliotrope, or Heliotropium curvassicum if I remember correctly. Got it in a soil sample from the Florida Keys. Toxic, contains alkaloids. Don't eat a bunch of it. Aaaand also in the same container (but not seen in this picture as it hadn't been planted when the photo was taken) is a spider plant, without the normal variegated leaves you see on most of todays commercially grown specimens. Seems to be doing well in the low light of our New Hampshire winters. Of course, due to the tilt of the sun, more light comes through the windows now than in the summer, so we'll see how that works out. The mother plant the pup came from is on the floor, out of the frame of the picture and is about four times the size. Anyone who wants an awesome spider plant can have one if they want, I have plenty of babies growing about.

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