The Pacific North-West Carnivorous Plant Club

 Dionaea muscipula

A little about carnivorous plants

Carnivorous plants (cp) are those plants which obtain nutrients most often from invertebrate prey, but may occasionally consume the odd vertebrate or two! The best known plant is, of course, the venus flytrap. However, there are over 200 other species, and more are discovered yearly.

Cp's are beautiful in both the traps and flowers. While many people think they are difficult to maintain, the majority are easy. In fact, the greatest diversity of cp genera are found in North America, and many can easily be grown year-round on the coast on your sunny deck. Give them a try, it'll bring out the ghoulish child in you!

To find out more about growing cp's in the Pacific Northwest region, follow this link here.

 Drosera binata

PNWCPC meetings

Attending our shows and sales is a great way to get introduced to the world of carnivorous plants. Our August 1999 show was a great success. Our next meeting will be on May 7, 2000 at the Richmond Nature Park Centre from 11am to 4pm.

This meeting will include a public display. However, plants will be traded and sold amongst members only, due to lack of adequate amounts of plants to publicly sell.

There will be a public sale August at which many plants will be up for available, including Sarracenia, Drosera, Dionaea, Nepenthes, plus many more, all at very reasonable prices.

A general cp meeting will follow the show. Everyone is welcome to attend this meeting, and to become a new member.

 Sarracenia flava

For more information, please go to the questions/comments page located:

here




Hope to see you at one of our meetings!

 Utricularia longifolia

Links

A number of useful links relating to cp's are listed below.

• Carnivorous Plant Database. The best starting point.
• ICPS homepage. The International Carnivorous Plant web-page. If you are interested in learning more about cultivation of cp's, this is the society to join.
• Barry's cp page. Home page of Barry Meyers-Rice, a cp enthusiast. Barry kindly provided permission to use the images on this web-page.
• Chris Frazier's cp page. Lots of good links and general information. Chris allowed us to use his background image for this web-site.
• Kevin Snively's carnivorous plants. Great detailed information on how to grow Drosera regia from seed, Kevin is an active member in the PNWCPC.
• Cascade carnivorous plants. Run by Andrew Marshall, the PNWCPC president, he offers a wide variety of cp's for sale and has good growing advice online.

 Nepenthes rafflesiana

Last updated January 22, 2000