Utricularia Links




Other Websites		The International Carnivorous Plants Society (ICPS) The ICPS provides a variety of services for the carnivorous plant community, publishes a quarterly journal, and is the registration authority for carnivorous plant cultivars. Their website is quite extensive and is a good place to explore if you have any interest at all in carnivorous plants . The Carnivorous Plants FAQ Maintained by Dr. Barry Rice this is a masterpiece of hypertext. It is complete, well-written and frequently updated. It covers media, growing requirements, carnivorous plants genera, conservation issues... well, pretty much everything you can think of. It has 4 pages dedicated to Utricularia, including some low-budget animated GIFs of the capture process. Dr. Rice also has a couple of other pages that are worthy of note. The Galleria Carnivora presents some great photos of carnivorous plants, including many of Utricularia species. He also maintains an archive of articles he has written, including several on Utricularia cultivation and identification. The Carnivorous Plant Database An exhaustive collection of carnivorous plants names, location data and other information that I'm sure some people find very interesting, all entered into a searchable database. To go directly to the home page of the database, select the link above, to search the database for a list of plants from a specific country or Floristic Province, click here. The CP Mailing List Carnivorous plant enthusiasts are few and far between, and what they did before the advent of the Internet I do not know. The CP Mailing List has been around since before the Internet as we know it existed - way back in the early nineties! I would recommend reading the CP FAQ, and maybe browsing the archives (older or newer) before posting, as some basic questions are no longer being answered with the same gusto as they once were. The CP Web Ring It's amazing how many different angles people have on growing carnivorous plants, and it is still more amazing how many people are willing to spend their spare time in front of a computer designing a web page to tell everyone about it. Information about Utricularia is still a little scarce, but you may be able to find people with some interesting plants on their grow lists who may be interested in trading. Or better yet, set up your own page and wait for the offers to roll in! Carnivorous Plants of Brazil and the World What do you mean you can't read Portuguese? Fortunately the pictures on this website are worth a thousand words in any language. The site has hundreds of photos of dozens of Utricularia species, emphasizing those native to Brazil and South America. The Australian Carnivorous Plant Society Australia has many endemic Utricularia species, and although this site doesn't contain much text, it has some spectacular photos of rare and unusual Utricularia species, including the bizarre U. dunlopii. BestCarnivorousPlants.com This site lists for sale an unbelievable variety of plants, including lots of Utricularia species. They take credit cards, ship internationally, and guarantee live delivery. I have ordered from them in the past, and plants that didn't survive the two weeks in the mail it took to arrive at this remote northern outpost were happily replaced at no cost. I cannot recommend them highly enough. They are now taking orders for spring/summer of 2002, and have an agent handling orders in the US and Canada. Utricularia's Room & Utricularia Forever You mean you can't read Japanese either? The Japanese seem to really appreciate their Utricularia. These two websites have photos of some of the most obscure plants in cultivation. I suppose the scale of Utricularia is more compatible with smaller living spaces than gigantic Nepenthes monstrosities. Petflytrap™ Discussion Forums Petflytrap™ is an American CP seller who does not sell any utrics. However, they do have CP oriented discussion forums. While I would still turn to the CP listserver with tough questions about cultivation or botany, the users of this forum are more than able to answer a broad range of questions. It is a friendly community that welcomes new members, and discussions often stray from CPs to include favorite movies, personal achievements and mindless blather (not necessarily a bad thing). I would encourage more people to post to the Utricularia forum. CP Photo Finder Bob Ziemer maintains this excellent page of every photo of every carnivorous plant he can find on the internet, all indexed for your convenience. The frequency of the updates to this site makes me wonder if Mr. Ziemer ever sleeps. Google News The fine people at Google have a handy news indexing search engine. To keep up on current CP-related information you can even have it alert you when your search terms come up. I would recommend adding -"little shop" (that's a minus sign infront of the first quotation mark), otherwise you will be alerted everytime the Poughkeepsie community theatre puts on a production of that perrenial favourite. Do have any more website suggestions? Email me.