Jungle man and big mushroom
faces, blind and deaf?
fountain in Bromeliaceae house, fit the plants so nice
little girl explore in Bromeliaceae house
My first time to see a pineapple growing
The plant on overpass
new leaf is interesting, absolutely flat
the flower
Ah, I see this on my book, let me put it on, I can give name later. :) It is in the cool house. We are very happy to go into cool house, much low temprature.
Red string go down the cliff
We usually have a warm green house for gardening, here they get 'cool house', cool and moisture. The air conditioning keeps on working to cold down the place, and water are pray out from roof, make big fog.
This Indian guy with a handycam seems a specialist. He examines places that I think nothing is there, for long time.
This one looks familiar
The carnivorous plants. The second time see this biting box, last time in Freiburg plant shop. :)
And this carnivorous, too. Unfortunately, or fortunately, no poor insects arround, eat up by them?
Here's the introduction of carnivorous plants on the board:
'Carnivorous plants are well adapted to living in nutrient-poor enviroments. They feed on insects and similar small animals that they catch with their leaves. Such insect traps have different shapes.'
So, if nurient-poor, eat meats instead of vegetables, true for all. :D
The Indian stays here for a long long time. I am quite curious, what he's looking at? Then I see this, the .... Let me copy the name from Denise:
the pitcher plant hanging on the cliff
This handsome cool boy busy eating
If right side tastes not so nice, let's try the left.
This one and next 2 are similar, also on book
nice seat in botanic garden
vases
And these are my famous books bought at the orchid garden shop. 1001 Garden Plants in Singapore, Orchid Basics. We told the book seller next time we can buy the expensive very big orchid book when we have a better knowledge level. :))
The kebaya fan, next time I will buy a kebaya batic, the traditional skirt suit of Indonesia (?)
And 3 wood sculpture from Arab Str. 1$ each on sale: pelican, duck and cat.
Romance Sinapore Perfume, also at orchid garden, maily fruits fragrance, lemon and so on, quite nice. For Gift.
Orchid bookmarks.
very cool handnecklace from Arab Str.
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The flowers on the first picture in the cool house are very nice. I'd like to know the name. Is it an orchid? The flowers look strange, but the leaves are resembling Cattleya.
The latin name of the hanging pitcher plant is 'Nepenthes' 猪笼草. The pitcher contains a cocktail of enzymes. Little animals are attracted, slip and fall into the cocktail. They can't escape because the inside of the pitcher wall is too smooth.
The leaves on the photo above look very similar to the pitcher plants I saw in Berlin (Sarracenia 瓶子草).
The 'biting box' is a Venus Fly Trap (Dionea muscipula 捕蝇草). We made experiments with them at University. There are few small bristles 刚毛 on the upper side of the leaves. If these bristles are touched twice in a very short time, the trap will close quickly. After that it needs a while to recover.
The grasshopper is great! Reminds me of the Great Green Bush-Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) I once found in front of our garage. I wanted to save it and put it into the brushes nearby. I knew they can bite, so I grabbed it on its wings and, at the brushes, let it fall by opening my fingers with a sudden movement.
No use: it turned around in the air, bite me in my finger and jumped away...
Großes Heupferd (Tettigonia viridissima)
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2005-5-29 17:20
So!
It is the FAMOUS 'Nepenthes' 猪笼草 (in chinese, pig cage weed)!
I've read the brandy name ever since the basic botanic class in middle school. The book always takes pig cage weed as example to explain there's carnivorous plant existing.
But I never ever see it.
And when I see it, I never know it IS pig cage. 真是有眼不识泰山阿! No eyes even for great Mount Tai!
About snake, I don't know whether I like them or not. I don't have many chances to meet them. I really take a big consideration when see the very big snake at Night Safari (SG zoo). Well, it looks amiable, not bad. And if you donate 5SG$ to animals, you can take photos with carrying big snake, owl and a wild cat. Actually I dont care photo or not, that's stupid. But the idea is to get so close to them. Others are of no doubt, so I think of that snake, can I get so close to him?
Well, I dont feel disgusting. But I can't say it is really ok. That's the big hesitation.
And later when I see the young man carrying the 10 feet snake in wild animal show. He's nice. And again I think the snake looks good.
I should say I make progress in sense of snake.
I met snake only co-incidently once.
And actually it is a nice experience.
It's the night I came back home in middle school. At that time the area of my home is still suburb. The road is under construction, pebbles and limes are pull in. So the air is stingy smoky.
I guess the contruction disturbs the snake. So suddenly, just a few meter in front of me, a very good looking green snake passing by, cross the road surface covered with lime, and disappears in the mess the other side.
Ah... it is very very COOL! that's my first time to know how a snake walks. He winds in Y axis direction but moving in purely X axis direction, and very very FAST!
Incredible. And I still cant get a good sense how it makes such movement even see them many times in the animal documentary program.
But at that time, I am stunning at the road motionless.
Guess! I just met a snake, here!
My head totally messed up with the non-sense fear of snake bite (actually such common green snake is poisonless at all) and the cool movement.
That is a very big event for me. I remember I wrote it into my Chinese homework. At that time, chinese teacher always asks us to hand in weekly diary to practice writing. And my first Chinese teachers in middle school and high school happened to be very nice, literature enthusastic. This makes my weekly report that period nicer than other time because they read very carefully and wrote very nice comments. So I always tried instinctively to write in very good way to make them happy and gave more nice comments.
Sometimes the teacher will happily ask me go to his office and chat about last essay. Ah, that really nevous me to death. At that time I am very very shy, don't know to sit or stand in the office, tongue totally bind up...
That's long long time ago. I still remember the light yellow tea cup mark on my exercise book. My teacher is a good man, he's happy and drink tea with my essay open, spend a long time to evaluate what is good what is not, then call me up into office for a talk.
I am so thankful.
About the flower, let me check book later. You know it's an English book... I can't remember those strange names. :p But that's a nice book, all pictures, full plant, flower closeup and fruit, easy to recognize. And anyway a lot of plants actually don't have Chinese name since we don't have them.
评论人：乱看 评论日期：2005-5-30 9:52
I also have only one ipressing memory of a snake meeting, but it is much younger than yours. It was in 1998, when Sebastian and I were in Denmark together.
The holiday houses are small wooden houses surrounded by heathen dunes. Ours had a patio with a balustrade. along one side of the house there was a catwalk without a balustrate. One evening I was in a very happy mood and i started walking - no, it was more like a dancing or jumping - over that catwalk. when i reached the patio the catwalk stopped and I was about to jump onto the heather. I forgot to say: I was barfoot.
Suddenly I recognized a common viper (or adder, Vipera berus) in front of me! The common viper is the only common poisonous snake we have (there is a second one which is very seldom, Vipera aspis).
In an instant I stopped in the middle of the jump, climbed up the wall of the balustrade and shouted: 'Sebastian, please, the camera, and my shoes!'But the snake was gone. Sebastian saw it again later and took a photo of it.
Your Chinese teacher were great, I envy you for them. I remember when I was 12 years old,I wrote a 4 pages long fantasy short story (with typewriter). I waited outside the classroom for my German teacher. I was very excited. It was in the beginning of the schoolyear, I didn't know my teacher well yet. I said to him: 'I wrote a short story, four pages long. Do you want to read it?'
He answered: 'Oh, your homework is four pages long? That's good!'
I corrected: 'No, not my homework. It is a story that I wrote', but it was no use, he didn't want to read it. I was so disappointed.I stopped writing stories and wrote poems instead for a while.
Denise
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2005-5-30 14:16
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