Reminds me of something

[DavyR]

Here's another type of pitcher plant though again it's only a baby. Fully grown, the pitcher would be between 6" - 9" long....

 

 

You're 'aving a larf, John - I recognise that as the 18th century animal-gut condom said to have been used by Casanova.

[Phone]

Cory,

 

I believe it is a cypripedium. Not that it is a cypripedium it's just that cypripedium is one of my "favorite" words to say out loud. (For what it's worth my all time favorite word is "mayonnaise".)

 

John, do you also include orchids in your hobby?

 

Phone

[Worms]

I'm with that, looks like an Arum to me.

Definitely an Arum (lily) but there are thousands out there. Leaf shape, habit and where/when it was growing would be useful...definitely not native though!

[Phone]

Worms, All,

 

Mostly because of my ignorance and the color of the plant I was thinking anthurium?

 

Any possibility?

 

Phone

[Worms]

Worms, All,

 

Mostly because of my ignorance and the color of the plant I was thinking anthurium?

 

Any possibility?

 

Phone

Yes Phone, a possibility again an Arum, from the Americas!

[corydoras]

OK I'll put you all out of your misery. Those who say its some kind of Arum are close to the mark.

 

It is Dracunculus vulgaris. It hails from the Balkans, and the flower stinks like a rotten carcass.

[John S]

John, do you also include orchids in your hobby?

 

Phone

 

Never really got into orchids, just cacti and ( starting a couple of years ago) carnivorous plants. The nearest I got to growing orchids was when one mysteriously appeared growing from the soil in my greenhouse a few years ago....

[Ken L]

I saw the pitcher plants growing wild in Borneo a few years back. What surprised me was the environment where they grow - on the fairly dry and arid hills where the other vegetation is basically grasses and bushes.

[Worms]

That's why they are pitcher plants!...they need to supply their own nutrients from their own "system"

[Ken L]

Oh I expected poor soils but not for it to be dry and sunny - a dark and dingy wet forrest seems a more appropriiate setting.