its ok im sure its not your fault; you gave very little location information when showing them as well as not showing the surroundings around the orchids but it does suck :( I hate poachers, and i wish they would stop destroying these natural areas!
This was a great video. It brought back memories from my childhood when my brother and I used to walk through the woods. We’d see pitcher plants, wild orchids and so on. We had our share of mosquitoes and ticks, as well. I hope you found all of those suckers!
It was cool seeing you come across the purple pitcher plants, their flowers are actually the official flower of the province that I live in, Newfoundland!
SOOOOO Cool! Im glad you got the perfect picturesque scene! I saw it Immediately and brought a tear to my eye when I saw the sun shining through to the patch. Glad your dad and brother were able to see the beauty through your eyes!!
There's a boy scout camp in Wisconsin I use to go to called camp rokilio. The camp has a bog. When I first went to camp rokilio and we went down to the bog the camp councilors told us to stick together or the bog monster would get us. What's cool is that the bog had pitcher plants
The joy the editing style brings me. I felt like I was there. I also got into mushroom foraging a few years ago but have only gone twice. Would love, love, love to watch a mushroom forage video. A good RU-vid video on that subject are hard to find.
I loved this! It amazing to see a different kind of bog from what I'm used to in Finland. It's similar but with completely different plants although there's some similar things in there. The bugs are pretty much the same as well 😂
Beautiful sightings! I live in Southeast Asia, the only carnivorous plant species I spotted in the wild was Nepenthes Ampullaria growing beside a river on a hill where I was hiking 4 years ago, the rest were common widespread species.
Tamarack is also the only pine tree type that turns a bright yellow in the fall and will drop its needles and regrow again in the spring like deciduous trees. We have them in Minnesota where I am.
I love this. I never thought about my area having something rare. I'll have to start looking in to it. Love your videos, they're always so motivational.
I really appreciate this video. it made me look into bogs in my state (PA) and now I know so much about bogs! We have a really neat spaghnum bog with a boardwalk over the bog. I'm making plans to see it with my friend. On videos I've watched, a lot of the same plants exist in that bog as in the bog that you researched. Thanks, friend.
Awesome! Do some research on which plants are in bloom now because most of the pink Lady slippers will be done. So find thr ones online that are in bloom so you have a higher chance of seeing some pretty flowers
We have Lady Slippers here in SW PA too, but theyre not very common. Its always a treat to see one lonely Orchid just thriving away under all the Mountain Laurel. 💚
Thank you! We have some bogs in east troy that are like this one if you were every curious about visiting one without having to drive all the way up north
I grew up in north east Pennsylvania and found Lady Slipper orchids growing on rock out croppings far from any water or bogs. They grew in a heavy layer of decomposing leaves.
I didn't know you had the pink lady slipper's that far north! I'm in the Blue Ridge mountains (Virginia) and we have large colonies of them here, I've seen areas in pine forest where they literally carpet the ground wall to wall. There is also a yellow species that is less common but incredibly beautiful. There are other orchids in our forests here but none are as showy as those lady slippers. I've gone bog-hopping along the coastal plains of Virginia/N. Carolina/S. Carolina and there are plenty of bogs there filled with orchids and carnivorous plants... I've never seen these purple pitcher plants here, the species that grows in the bogs I visited are tall and green. Sundews are everywhere! Near Myrtle Beach SC I've seen the Venus Flytraps.... of course all are protected and should only be collected with a camera lens :) This was an AMAZING bog, I'd love to have visited it with you! I've always wanted to see the Showy Lady slipper (Cypripedium Reginae) in person but I'm too far south of it's range. The Appalachian mountains are a natural botanical garden of interesting plants and wildlife, I think you could spend a lifetime here and never see everything it has to offer... I've roamed these mountains for seven decades and I still find things I've never seen before! ENJOY NATURE :)
That’s so awesome! I’ve been wanting to search out the purple pitcher plants since I found out about them in 2012. I’m in the fox valley and I’m pretty sure every bog is a few hours away that’ll have them in. If you don’t mind me asking, whereabouts was this one? Btw, I thought we only had one orchid so it’s really cool to see there’s more!
I had no idea that there are orchids so far north. Wow. I've seen some native Florida orchids, and when I lived in Costa Rica I saw so many types it's unbelievable. My ex father in law used to find them on branches that fell in the jungle and he brought them to us. We probably had 50 different ones from buying them too. I also saw tons more that I left because they were in trees, picking them isn't cool with me. Anyway orchids were Darwin's favorite plants because they're the most diverse plants. So I shouldn't be surprised they grow up there I guess.
I'm using a bmpcc 6k pro, 16-35mm f2.8. I'm not using a filter but I'm using like a film lut in DaVinci resolve. And shooting raw video. The footage was almost 500gb 😆
I always wanted to know, how North-american bogs looks like because I have some pitcherplants as hobby. But I live in Europe so it's not really posdible. I am so glad that you are doing this kind of videos as these are the best that I could find on the internet about this theme.
There are some similar boglands in the UK. Though you need to know where to look. They've got different soils though so different plants. Got some rare orchids and they attract super rare butterflies
I use Google maps to search for bogs or fens and then usually there is a DNR website linked to the park. Also Inaturalist is a good website. People will obscure the exact location of thr orchids to try and make it harder for poachers to get them. But they should give you a general idea of where to hike around. If you find a nice place I suggest you keep it secret and share it with only ppl you trust because I wanna say it was your state that had a bog full of pitcher plants and someone came and took hundreds of them. Sucks to gatekeep but all it takes us one asshole to literally decimate these places. Good luck finding some nice bogs! Keep em secret!
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@@TechplantChannel I should, I’m SUPER into orchids and I haven’t even thought to research to see if there are any in Virginia because it gets cold here
@@colin_300 There are bogs in Virginia. Species common to most variants include great rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum), Catawba rhododendron (Rhododendron catawbiense), silky willow (Salix sericea), smooth alder (Alnus serrulata), cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum), tawny cottongrass (Eriophorum virginicum), prickly bog sedge (Carex atlantica), Fraser's marsh St. Johns-wort (Triadenum fraseri) , and brownish beaksedge (Rhynchospora capitellata). Species more restricted to low-elevation (below 900 m [3000 ft]) bogs of the Ridge and Valley and Cumberland Mountains include pitch pine (Pinus rigida), round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia ), bushy bluestem (Andropogon glomeratus), tussock sedge (Carex stricta), tuberous grass-pink (Calopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus), yellow fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris), and Nuttall's reed-grass (Calamagrostis coarctata). Species more restricted to higher-elevation (mostly above 900 m [3000 ft]) bogs of the southern Blue Ridge, Allegheny Mountains, and/or the highest mountains of the Ridge and Valley include stunted red spruce (Picea rubens), long-stalked holly (Ilex collina), northern wild raisin (Viburnum cassinoides), Carolina laurel (Kalmia carolina), cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon), rough-leaved goldenrod (Solidago patula), Cuthbert's turtlehead (Chelone cuthbertii), bog goldenrod (Solidago uliginosa var. uliginosa), star sedge (Carex echinata ssp. echinata), narrow-leaf bur-reed (Sparganium acaule), bog willow-herb (Epilobium leptophyllum), narrow-panicled rush (Juncus brevicaudatus), three-seeded sedge (Carex trisperma), Ruth's sedge (Carex ruthii), and thyme-leaf bluets (Houstonia serpyllifolia). References: Chappell (1972), Fleming and Coulling (2001), Musselman (1970), Ogle (1982), Fleming and Moorhead (1996).
Nice video! You said that you're still learning about orchids, so I thought I would share some of what I know. Yes, there are two green-flowered species that are closely related to the white bog orchid (P. dilatata). They are the north wind bog orchid (Platanthera aquilonis) and the Lake Huron green bog orchid (Platanthera huronensis), and are frequently confused due to their superficial resemblance to each other. Generally speaking, the latter has a more elongated labellum with a variably prominent basal dilation. The anther sacs only diverge somewhat nearer to the bottom and the connective (which bridges them at the top) is noticeable. What's really fascinating is that P. huronensis is actually an ancient hybrid (allotetraploid) formed between P. aquilonis and P. dilatata, which are both diploids. In many ways, it is intermediate between the two species and can sometimes very closely resemble P. dilatata when it has extremely light green (rarely white) flowers. These three species all belong to Platanthera subgenus Limnorchis, and are the only of their kind which occur in eastern North America. The others are found primarily in the West. P. dilatata itself is a rapidly evolving species which is usually divided into three varieties, but only the nominate (var. dilatata) grows in Eastern North America. Generally the spur of this variety is roughly equal to the lip and the flowers have diurnal fragrance.
Bro it's 2023 not 1923, evolution is not a real world process lol. Mindless matter and mutation can't produce code. Mind is the paradigm of creation in reality, not magic. Evolutionary theory is a mythology of magic, rationality from irrationality. Mind>magic