{"id":1026,"date":"2016-05-13T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:25:46","slug":"plant-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/plant-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Utricularia<\/a><\/p>\n

Utricularia subulata \u00a9 Benoit Villette<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bladderworts<\/h2>\n

The bladderworts (Utricularia spp.<\/em>) belong to the family Lentibulariaceae. Most of them are aquatic, while some of them have chosen for wet terrestrial environments, like coastal swamp forests and savannahs. The Tr\u00e9sor reserve, with its wet savannahs, supplies a wonderful ecosystem for the bladderworts.<\/p>\n

The bladderwort is a carnivorous plant. It lacks roots, but it has found some clever solutions that let it survive in oligotrophic (very poor soil) environments.<\/p>\n

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The savannahs of Tr\u00e9sor house\u00a0around ten species of bladderworts\u00a0\u00a9 Benoit Villette<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bladderworts produce two type of leaves: ‘classical’ leaves (for photosynthesis) and alternative leaves that are situated on the ground or under water. These alternative leaves, also called ‘bladders’ measure between one and several millimetres. They function like traps. They attract their prey with small ‘branched hairs’, that could be mistaken for algae. Special glands in the bladders create a vacuum. If a hair is touched, the bladder will be opened instantly through the movement of a valve. All sufficiently small organisms will be sucked into the vacuum once they touch the hairs of the bladderwort.<\/p>\n

The bladders contain enzymes that will digest the prey, once sucked in. Once soluble, the plant can assimilate the nutrients of its captured prey. Once the feast is finished, the bladderwort reactivates its trap.<\/p>\n

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The small Utricularie pusilla is the most opportunistic; it is found for instance on the parking of the reserve \u00a9 Renske Ek<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Utricularia<\/p>\n

Utricularia nana \u00a9 Benoit Villette<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Utricularia<\/p>\n

Utricularia hispida \u00a9 Benoit Villette<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This beautiful bladderwort is aquatic and is found on the inundated parts of the Tr\u00e9sor savannah (Utricularia myriocysta) \u00a9 Foto Natura 2002<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Utricularia<\/a><\/p>\n

Utricularia juncea est une des plus grandes esp\u00e8ces de Guyane atteignant les 50 cm de haut \u00a9 Renske Ek<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Close up of the branches carrying the bladders \u00a9 Foto Natura 2002<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Yellow<\/a><\/p>\n

Yellow remains the dominant colour in the fowers of Utricularia \u00a9 Benoit Villette<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Utricularia<\/p>\n

Utricularia viscosa, one of rare species without a yellow flower \u00a9 Renske Ek<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On the savannahs, only the small yellow flowers can help you find them \u00a9 Renske Ek<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Utricularia<\/a><\/p>\n

Utricularia foliosa is an entirely aquatic species of coastal swamp forests, only its flower is not subaquatic \u00a9 Benoit Villette<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bladderworts The bladderworts (Utricularia spp.) belong to the family Lentibulariaceae. Most of them are aquatic, while some of them have chosen for wet terrestrial environments, like coastal swamp forests and savannahs. The Tr\u00e9sor reserve, with its wet savannahs, supplies a wonderful ecosystem for the bladderworts. The bladderwort is a carnivorous plant. It lacks roots, but[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reserve-tresor.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}