Plant Fest 20008 Photos

Well, you suckers weren't there.

So all you get is a pics:

Be careful to look at the details of each photo, you will notice many things in them.


Riccia in the Fakahatheee swamp



Hygro grows all over the Santa Fe River and is a horrid weed:
Down to 20Ft perhaps more.



Near the mouth of Suwanee River:



the spoonbill:



Regards,
Tom Barr

 

Mermaid weed:



New foreground plant:

That could have been you! Discovering a new aquatic foreground plant.





Polygonum:

 

Swamp forest:





Feels like the Jungle in the Amazon, not Florida.



Lily springs:

 

Note gators sitting there


I like it when wind bag arm chair experts on snails somehow know everything about olive nerites and tell me their habitats and requirements etc:



Yep, they are the experts.............

Another interesting thing, I did not see any heating cables or powersand the entire time...........

Pretty natural.

Wide range of habitats and many of the same plants.

You need to be on nature and a part of it to understand it.
Photo's , our scapes etc will never do it justice no matter how nice.

Regards,
Tom Barr

 

This could have been you:



Nothing like Red Ludwigia from the source

Algae ball where you do not have to go to the Japan:



Note: these are marine, there are several species that form balls.





Marine species where easier to find this year

Regards,
Tom Barr

 

It might be a Liliopsis carolina or something.
But it's furry...........

It's much easier, closer(unless you live in Brazil) and faster to get to all these habits than say in Brazil.

Regards,
Tom Barr

 

The plant is really a marine alga Actetabularia, common name is mermaid's wine glass likes nasty polluted warm water.



Regards,
Tom Barr

 

It typically grows floating, they recently had a lot of water, so it's submersed here.

Most wetland plants are adapted to grow both in and out of water.
They are amphibious.

They also are well adapted to take nutrients from the water column and the sediment exclusively or partially.

N is very limiting in many swamps, Utricularia uses carniviory to add N, many use the newly flushed water column to take up N, like mermaid weed and it's far more dissected leaf morphology under low N conditions. There's often very little usable N in many locations.

these systems change throughout the year dramatical and you can observe shifts.
Same is true in the marine environment.

I found riccia a couple of blocks from my home in FL, just in some ditch, and there's another spot where it's been growing for 6 years at least, just some side pond swamp marsh next to some school building not far from where folks stay. Bacopa, and about a dozen others right there.