The startling Cobra Lily

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TimV

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This carnivorous plant is unique for a couple reasons. We have very few of this type of plant on the west coast, and even fewer carnivorous plants like shade, as does this. They live in bogs in Northern CA and Oregon, where not much else lives do to really poor soil. They don't have any fancy chemicals to lure and digest prey, but those speckles on the "hood" are transparent, and when a fly crawls inside to investigate the smell of it's previous dinner it bangs itself against these false windows just like they do in your house until it falls down exhausted and joins the larder.

This one is a fairly easy grower once you keep in mind the soil should be acidic, no fertilizer, always keep damp with pure water. Full sun or partial shade, don't worry if they die back in winter. They can take a frost as well. Never fertilize. All in all a nice one for a child's science project. This one is about 5 years old, and I've never had to feed it once :)

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You should be able to get one on ebay. If not, pm me. They'd do well around you guys.
 
That was actually a bit of a disappointment - it's a very nice plant, but from the thread title I was expecting to see an amazing snake, answering to the name Lily
 
Very nice

That's a neat-looking flower, Tim. I'm getting into gardening a bit myself - I wonder how that would do in Florida?
 
This one is a fairly easy grower...

Tim, your definition of "fairly easy" is very different from my definition of "fairly easy", which for plants is: "Plant this seed. Wait."

:lol:

PS- Your plant threads are always extremely interesting! Thank you for sharing them!
 
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