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Carnivorous Plants in the Wilderness
by Makoto Honda
The Best of Carnivorous Plants / Insectivorous Plants in the Wilderness

  

 

 

The Best --------------------- Announcement ------------------------------
Carnivorous Plants / Insectivorous Plants in the Wilderness

is NOW Packed in an eBook!!!!!
by Makoto Honda                          CARNIVOROUS PLANT BOOK FOR GENERAL AUDIENCE
 

At long last, the most vibrant   best CP photo images in the Web are captured in the form of an eBook for your "off-line" enjoyment and permanent collection!!!


 

$29.95

Online Order -- now only $19.95 (USD)

$19.95  + S&H ($5.95 USA / $8.95 Overseas)  

- PC only --- Require Internet Explorer (That's it)

How to order -- PayPal only

This eBook is informative.... It describes various aspects of carnivorous plants in general and all 6 CP genera growing in the USA.

The book is highly interactive, like Internet. The contents are written in the hyper-text.  It is easy to navigate, fun to read, and informative.  Accompanying photos are astounding.

Many pictures in this web site are captured in this eBook,

Many of the photos are hyper-linked to a super-large image of up to 1200 pixel dimension to fill your computer monitor.  And you do not have to worry about slow loading via your internet connection.

The book offers the same dynamic, interactive user-interface as the Internet (written in hyper text), but no online connection!

You are invited to the natural habitats of cp in the US.

Close to 100 new photos are added for this eBook.

Give me more pics!!!!!  OK

Carnivorous Plants World Map is also included.

 

 

PC only - Need Internet Explorer That's all

Captured in one CD-ROM

$19.95 (USD) + Shipping&Handling ($5.95 USA and $8.95 overseas)

My wish is to someday publish a CP photography book.  But a kind of high quality photo book I am envisioning is very expensive to make.... it is a very expensive and risk-filled undertaking on the part of a publisher.  Especially the subject matter is as narrow as CP.  and when my name is not Ansel Adams.

Difficult to deliver this much color images in a printed book... too expensive to produce. Digital delivery is perfect for this....

But in the mean time, we have the Internet.  It is a perfect conduit to deliver "images" and high quality ones at that.  Microsoft just announced the web based software for newspaper, jointly developed by New York Times.  MS is making the system available to other newspapers as well in the future.

I have been thinking about the presentation paradigm of the Internet for sometime... its interactivity, hyper-text, video, and sound.  UI is challenging...     When we think of eBook, there are mainly two ways of packaging the book.  One is PDF based book, and the other is capturing the contents as well as interaction as in the web.

It will change and evolve...

PDF seems like mainly for printing...

I chose the latter....

My book will be updated as we go along...

Find any mistakes and if I agree, I will fix it and send you the complimentary updated version.

 

INTRODUCTION

- Definition of CP
- Type of traps
- Prey pollinator dilemma
- World Distribution

1.  Venus Flytrap  GENUS Dionaea
2.  Sundews  GENUS Drosera
       Three different kinds of tentacles?

3.  Pitcher Plants  GENUS Sarracenia
4.  Cobra Plant  GENUS Darlingtonia
       Habitat . Flower structure . Elusive Pollinators - who is the pollinator

5.  Butterworts  GENUS Pinguicula
       Have you seen the butterwort's leaf move?

6.  Bladderworts  GENUS Utricularia
       How does the trap work?

- Sample the contents  (Part of Venus Flytrap chapter)

CARNIVOROUS PLANTS AT A GLANCE

 

 GENUS Brocchinia     FAMILY Bromeliaceae                                                                  2 species

A carnivorous bromeliad

The family Bromeliaceae contains some 50 genera. Three species, two in Brocchinia and one in Catopsis, have recently been recognized as carnivorous (1988888...) The genus Brocchinia contains two species both of which are found to be carnivorous. The genus Catopsis contains 12 species, of which one is found to be carnivorous.

It is quite conceivable that the list of carnivorous bromeliads will get longer.