This flower is not Queen Anne’s Lace, but it sure looks like it. It’s as BIG as my head!
BIG poppies! I love poppies!
Here are some plants I wish weren’t so big.
Skunk cabbage. My that is some BIG skunk cabbage.
This BIG, horrible, thorny plant was everywhere in the forest. Rich, one of our guides, told us not to touch it. If a thorn got lodged in your skin it would fester and be sore for months.
Here are two plants we found in Alaska. No they are not BIG – and maybe I’m glad.
My I present to you the ‘Chocolate Lily’?
Ahhh. Beautiful to behold and one of only a few brown flowers in the world. Chocolate Lily roots apparently are tasty when cooked.
I found out that other names for this flower are Skunk Lily, Dirty Diaper and Outhouse Lily. This plant relies on flies for pollination! With that in mind I casually suggested Miss G smell it. She got in close.
How was it Miss G?
“Like an unclean port-a-potty!”
(I like to trick Miss G on occasion. Hee, hee, hee. Some moms like to do that.)
I did not trick Miss G with this flower, the SunDew. This pretty, marsh growing plant is carnivorous! It eats insects!
Each hair sticking up has a little drop of sticky liquid. Insects think little drops of sticky liquid are cool and soon get caught. The leaf folds around the critter then secretes juices to digest it.
I was so excited to find some digesting in action! See the fly? It is wrapped in a leaf near the center of my photo. Poor fly.
Click here to watch a short video about carnivorous plants, including the sundew at work.
