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| Nepenthes edwardsiana at the New England Carnivorous Plant Society Show. |
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New England Carnivorous Plant Society held its annual show this past weekend, and as usual the membership displayed and sold a fantastic array of plants. Attendance was excellent, as well, with something around 1500 visitors on Saturday alone. The show took place at Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Massachusetts, Worcester County Horticultural Society's immaculately maintained complex in the Worcester suburbs. In earlier phases of the NECPS's existence, the show was held at Roger Williams Park in Providence (and one time at the University of Rhode Island), but the event has become a popular autumn tradition at Tower Hill over the past couple of years.
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| Visitors to the carnivorous plant show, Saturday Morning. |
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| The American Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia) table was packed solid with plants. |
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| Emmi K's comprehensive collection of the bladderworts (Utricularia) of New England. Emmi and some friends travel around to swamps and bogs in the summer, collecting bladderwort specimens, then use the plants to create an educational display. |
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| A big pot of a giant Venus' Flytrap cultivar, Dionaea muscipula 'B52'. The name B52 apparently derives from a label code in Henning Von Schmeling's flytrap breeding program, and has nothing to do with the bomber (or the band). |
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| The very rare and almost shrub-like South American pitcher plant Heliamphora tatei. |
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| Another "Sun Pitcher" species that is almost never seen in cultivation, Heliamphora sarracenioides. |
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| An art installation made of woven saplings on the Tower Hill grounds: "Wild Rumpus" by Patrick Dougherty. |
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