International Carnivorous Plant Society - ICPS

Nepenthes Clipeata clone U wistuba by Floricultura Pai e Filho

Can you spot the real one? Teachers, the ICPS is accepting applications for Carnivores in the Classroom grants.

The ICPS has a grant program where we match up CP nurseries around the world with teachers at public and private schools who teach kindergarten through 12th grade to provide carnivorous plants for use in the classroom. If your country does not have a CP nursery pledging plants, we provide money to buy plants locally. We are approaching the end of the application period and have available slots.

In addition to receiving $150 of carnivorous plants, teachers will also get to choose 1 3D model of a carnivorous plant from Carnivorex

If you are a teacher or know a teacher who would like to use CPs in their classroom, there is more information at

https://www.carnivorousplants.org/education/ClassroomGrants

The open period for grant requests ends August 31, 2024.

If you are curious about how the grants were used in previous years, we have lesson plans the teachers used to go along with the plants.

https://www.carnivorousplants.org/education/CPsClassroomLessons

Nepenthes rajah x robcantleyi growing well in lowland conditions by Floricultura Pai e Filho in

New discovery fundamentally changes the way we understand Charles Darwin’s most beloved plant – the sundew

A new study has found a symbiotic relationship that has evolved between Darwin’s favourite carnivorous plant and a specific type of fungus which lives inside it and helps it digest its prey.

Researchers from Loughborough, Taiwan and USA have shown that Acrodontium crateriforme, a fungus that thrives in the acidic conditions on the leaves, improves the digestion of the Drosera species of carnivorous plant – otherwise known as a sundew (pictured above), and once described by Charles Darwin as, "a wonderful plant… I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species."

Read full story here: https://tinyurl.com/yc2hfx

It's Patches - a vigorous grower with long cillia and some lovely coloration of green with red patches over it. Photo by Casey Gittos

Amy Laundrie: Life lessons learned from a quaking bog It would have been easy to stay curled up in the recliner, but I’d signed my husband and me up for a Wisconsin Natural Resources class, “Beautiful Bogs: Bog Ecology

Seed grown Maxima x trusmadiensi by Floricultura Pai e Filho

TEACHERS, only 10 days left to win $150 worth of carnivorous plants and a 3D model of a carnivorous plant for your classroom! Our annual Carnivores in the Classroom grant period is now open! Please share this with all of your teacher friends! We need your help in spreading this awesome opportunity!

This year we are giving away more than $6,600 in carnivorous plants for classrooms around the world!

Thank you to our sponsors!
Specimen Donor Level
Carnivorous Plant Nursery & California Carnivores
Flower Donor Level
Carnivorex
Rhizome Donor Level
Carnivero & Diflora
Seedling Donor Level
Greg Bourke & Grüne Monster

How to Apply?
Create a UNIQUE PowerPoint lesson (5-slide minimum) that centers around the amazing attributes of carnivorous plants. The slides should be directions or instructions for the students. In the “notes” section please include important talking points, standard alignments, references, or anything else a teacher wanting to utilize the lesson should know.
Lessons can be about any aspect of carnivorous plants. Ideas include, but are not limited to, evolution, adaptation, conservation, chemical processes like photosynthesis or digestion, a testable question done through a lab experiment or long-term observation.
Visit https://carnivorousplants.org/education/ClassroomGrants for more information. Please check this link to make sure your lesson is UNIQUE ... and something that has not been submitted previously.
If you are a teacher and not an ICPS member, you may submit your application and receive feedback on if your lesson has been accepted. Then you will have 24 hours to become an ICPS member to claim your grant.
Grants will be awarded in the order that they are submitted. Teachers will be notified within 5 days of their submission!
Our partners have pledged:
35 teachers/classrooms in the US
7 teachers/classrooms in Europe
2 teachers/classrooms in Australia
If you are outside of these areas, the ICPS will be funding additional teachers.

Nepenthes veitchii bário candy red by Floricultura Pai e Filho

It's day! Check out this Sundew Cottage froPeculiar plants

Nepenthes Northiana x (lvb x vmv) by Floricultura Pai e Filho

TEACHERS, we still have plenty of plants to give away! Our annual Carnivores in the Classroom grant period is now open! Please share this with all of your teacher friends! We need your help in spreading this awesome opportunity!

This year we are giving away more than $6,600 in carnivorous plants for classrooms around the world!

Thank you to our sponsors!
Specimen Donor Level
Carnivorous Plant Nursery & California Carnivores
Flower Donor Leve
Carnivorex
Rhizome Donor Level
Carnivero & Diflora
Seedling Donor Level
Grüne Monster & Greg Bourke

How to Apply?
Create a UNIQUE PowerPoint lesson (5-slide minimum) that centers around the amazing attributes of carnivorous plants. The slides should be directions or instructions for the students. In the “notes” section please include important talking points, standard alignments, references, or anything else a teacher wanting to utilize the lesson should know.

Lessons can be about any aspect of carnivorous plants. Ideas include, but are not limited to, evolution, adaptation, conservation, chemical processes like photosynthesis or digestion, a testable question done through a lab experiment or long-term observation.

Visit https://carnivorousplants.org/education/ClassroomGrants for more information. Please check this link to make sure your lesson is UNIQUE ... and something that has not been submitted previously.

If you are a teacher and not an ICPS member, you may submit your application and receive feedback on if your lesson has been accepted. Then you will have 24 hours to become an ICPS member to claim your grant.

Grants will be awarded in the order that they are submitted. Teachers will be notified within 5 days of their submission!

Our partners have pledged:
35 teachers/classrooms in the US
7 teachers/classrooms in Europe
2 teachers/classrooms in Australia

If you are outside of these areas, the ICPS will be funding additional teachers.

It's !

Venus flytrap Gj korrale - a strange plant that grows both functional and non functional "pompom" like mutations Photo by Casey Gittos

Nepenthes veitchii bario candy red and truncata x edwardsiana by
Pai e Filho

Ampullaria “Garden Lady”
"Nepenthes I germinated here in Brazil, from Thailand seeds and selected that female clone, and my mother chose that name" Photo by Floricultura Pai e Filho

Karl found the old skin of a praying mantis this morning, from a recent molt. A little later he discovered the mantis happily sitting in his Sarracenia Judith Hindle growing on his deck in Brooklyn.

TEACHERS! Our annual Carnivores in the Classroom Grant applications are now open!
This year we are giving away more than $6,600 in carnivorous plants for classrooms around the world!

EACH teacher awarded with the grant will also get a a 3D model of a carnivorous plant - of their choosing - shipped to their classroom! These 3D models are designed and donated by Carnivorex! Carnivorex is the world's first ecofriendly 3D carnivorous plants shop.

They have 3 types of eco friendly materials:

-recycled bottles/3d printing leftovers
-Biodegradable polymer (beet juice and corn starch)
-compostable (wood or seaweed)

And of course - thank you to our plant sponsors!
Specimen Donor Level
Carnivorous Plant Nursery California Carnivores
Rhizome Donor Level
Carnivero & Diflora
Seedling Donor Level
Grüne Monster & Bourke
The submission period for the 2024 grants is open August 1 - August 31, 2024.

Visit https://carnivorousplants.org/education/ClassroomGrants for more information. Please check this link to make sure your lesson is UNIQUE ... and something that has not been submitted previously.

Please share this info with your teacher friends!

It's ! Check out this Sundew Cottage....can you even stand it?!
By Peculiar plants

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Check out this setup by Peculiar plants

Hello ICPS member!

The September 2024 issue of Carnivorous Plant Newsletter has shipped to regular members. The PDF of the issue is available for all members at
https://icps.clubexpress.com/.

Contents of Volume 53 Number 3, September 2024
Additions to the ICPS Achievement Awards webpage — John Brittnacher
Obituary Emeritus Prof. Dr. Stephen E. Williams — Siegfried R. H. Hartmeyer
Anatomic adaptation of stems of aquatic Utricularia species dragging turions to the bottom of their habitats — Lubomír Adamec and Hana Sehadová and Jiří Doležal and Veronika Jandová
Utricularia australis R. Br. (Lentibulariaceae): an addition to the carnivorous plants in flora of Gujarat, India — P. K. Patel and Chirag Prajapati
Utricularia purpurea (Purple Bladderwort) occasionally weedy in northern Wisconsin — Teresa A. Golembiewski
New cultivars — Rob Maharajh and John Ende and Joseph C. Sullivan
Cultivar names registered in 2022 and 2023 — Jan Schlauer

As a reminder, the ICPS YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/icpstv continues to get new videos of our Zoom Webinars. There is quite a variety topics from scientific to cultivation and greenhouse tours.

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Venus flytrap Siberia - a strong variegated plant showing great white patches throughout the plant some traps evening being all white Photo by Casey Gittos

TEACHERS! Our annual Carnivores in the Classroom Grant applications are now open!
This year we are giving away more than $6,600 in carnivorous plants for classrooms around the world!
Thank you to our sponsors!
Specimen Donor Level
Plant Nursery & California Carnivores
Rhizome Donor Level
Carnivero & Diflora
Seedling Donor Level
Grüne Monster & Greg Bourke
The submission period for the 2024 grants is open August 1 - August 31, 2024.
Do You Qualify?
*Are you a member of the International Carnivorous Plant Society?
*Are you a kindergarten through 12th grade public or private school?
If you can answer “yes” to these questions, you are eligible to apply. To become an ICPS member or e-member visit https://icps.clubexpress.com.

How to Apply?
Create a UNIQUE PowerPoint lesson (5-slide minimum) that centers around the amazing attributes of carnivorous plants. The slides should be directions or instructions for the students. In the “notes” section please include important talking points, standard alignments, references, or anything else a teacher wanting to utilize the lesson should know.

Lessons can be about any aspect of carnivorous plants. Ideas include, but are not limited to, evolution, adaptation, conservation, chemical processes like photosynthesis or digestion, a testable question done through a lab experiment or long-term observation.

Visit https://carnivorousplants.org/education/ClassroomGrants for more information. Please check this link to make sure your lesson is UNIQUE ... and something that has not been submitted previously.
If you are a teacher and not an ICPS member, you may submit your application and receive feedback on if your lesson has been accepted. Then you will have 24 hours to become an ICPS member to claim your grant.

Grants will be awarded in the order that they are submitted. Teachers will be notified within 5 days of their submission!

Our partners have pledged:
35 teachers/classrooms in the US
7 teachers/classrooms in Europe
2 teachers/classrooms in Australia
If you are outside of these areas, the ICPS will be funding additional teachers.

Today's webinar:

Unveiling Sundew Digestion: Chitinases at Work Chitinases are enzymes that break down chitin, a substance potentially found in the exoskeletons of insects caught by carnivorous plants. These enzymes are p...

Nepenthes truncata x spectabilis
Photo by Critter Companions by Kenny Coogan

N. Titanic Tyrant with it's friend N. miranda
Photo Critter Companions by Kenny Coogan

From our very own ICPS member Emmi Kurosawa

To Eat or Not to Eat: Novel Stable Isotope Models Reveal a Shift in Carnivory with Nutrient Availability for Aquatic Utricularia spp AbstractBackground and aims. Freshwater nitrogen inputs are increasing globally, altering the structure and function of wetland ecosystems adapted to low n

Nepenthes "Gothica" - so dark!
Gothica is a cross between maximia and sibuyanensis
Photo by Critter Companions by Kenny Coogan

Nepenthes 'Viking' x tiger Photo by Critter Companions by Kenny Coogan

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Venus flytrap Albino B52 - a white form of the vigorous plant but shows a stunning white inside of the traps Photo by Casey Gittos