Daytrips - Sarasota FL - 01/13/2004 Marie Selby Botanical Gardens |
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| The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is a ten acre formal garden located in the heart of the city of Sarasota on a spit of land between Sarasota Bay and Hudson Bayou. The Gardens is maintained for the study and display of orchids, bromeliads and other epiphytes and their canopy habitats. They have a tropical display house as a showcase for a living collection of rare orchids and bromeliads. In the remainder of the gardens you can find a fernery, a cycad display, an epiphyte garden, banyan grove, hibiscus gardens, succulents, wildflowers, mangroves, palms and more tropical exotic plants. See www.selby.org for more. This place charges a $12 entry fee. I had lunch at an on-site cafe, the Historic Selby House - very good and reasonable prices - prepared sandwiches, salads and soft drinks. They also have a gift shop with an extensive offering of orchids, bromeliads and epiphytes (at what seemed to me to be reasonable prices.)
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One of the many orchids in the Tropical Display House. |
An exotic pitcher plant. This plant lures insects to the top of the "pitcher" where they fall in and are absorbed by the plant for nourishment. |
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A exotic bromeliad. |
Another pitcher plant. This one lures insects to the flower like appendage on the top and funnels them into the pitcher on the bottom. |
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Another Orchid in the Tropical Display House. |
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