Accession Data

Cephalotus follicularis

Common Name: Albany Pitcher Plant

Family: Cephalotaceae

Country of Origin: southwest Australia

Description: A species of flightless, ant-mimicking fly requires Cephalotus pitchers to rear its young. They don't seem to mind growing up in the digestive enzymes of the pitchers and to this date, their larvae have been found living nowhere else.4

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 9-10

Accession #: 200400281

Accession Date: 2004-11-19 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2309

Quantity: 3

Source: Matt Opel ex Jeff Matteson NECPS

Culture: In nature, Cephalotus mainly grows in a mixture of sand, grass, and peat while dieting on mainly crawling insects such as ants.

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: eurosid I

Order: Oxalidales

Family: Cephalotaceae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
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References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, February 09, 2016.
  2. WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Tuesday, February 09, 2016.
  3. Image Cephalotus_follicularis03.jpg used with permission - Stan Malcolm. Ph.D., Systematics '81. Last accessed on Tuesday, February 09, 2016.
  4. An Introduction to Cephalotus follicularis - A Strange Carnivore From Australia at In Defense of Plants. Last accessed on Wednesday, November 22, 2017.

Images

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