March 11 2019
When looking inside a pitcher plant, many strange things are revealed. But it's not just the prey and the animals that eat them inside. Frequently, you see water droplets inside. It's one of my favorite things to see. Sometimes it's a glistening sphere on the plant’s inner surface or sometimes a full spherical drop can be seen.
I’m not sure what their origin is. Are they raindrops or are they derived from condensation. I favor the ladder. The pitchers occasionally pick up rainwater, but it is a rare thing for the plants I have.
Water droplets are frequently seen in Judith Hindle, but I wasn’t expecting the “light show” in the pitcher on March 11 2019. There are hundreds of waterdrops! They appear arranged in an orderly manner. I think they are at the tips of the plants inner hairs. Possibly humidity was right to condense liquid water and the tip of the plant hair initiated the condensation. (Much like the tip of a glass pipette can initiate crystallization in the lab)
That said, it is possible that the it's not water droplets, it's might be the little white blogs that live in the plant.
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