Carnivorous Plants: Serpent of the Siskiyous (Darlingtonia californica)

[thepadna]

Love the info!

[BotanyVideo]

Nice video, next you should try to get a film of the flower being pollinated!!

[SarraceniaNorthwest]

@BotanyVideo Thank you. Pollination is very difficult. As of yet, no one knows for sure what insect pollinates the flowers in the wild. The current theory is spiders.

[BotanyVideo]

@SarraceniaNorthwest

You are welcome. I think if you google search Andrena nighirta and Darlingtonia, you will find that some research (some done in 2009 at Humboldt State University) indicates that this solitary bee visits and pollinates Darlingtonia californica. Although spiders do facilitate pollination too.

[swat007jp]

@BotanyVideo yep

[TheDistortionBassist]

1:54 listen closely for someone laughing in the backround

[Woozelruler]

The most in-depth and informational video yet. Love the "security"

[stevetinyhallman]

This video has me wondering if they will survive in Augusta Georgia.

[roark100]

cool i got mine in the mail today

[lady3xtreme]

Beautiful video capture of the plants! I plan to visit them in the wild sometime (as they are a couple of hours north from home).