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Welcome to the Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society Blog.

The blog serves as the Society’s document repository. Back issues (PDF) of FlyTrap News and Carniflora Australis can be accessed by clicking on the appropriate tabs in the menu bar above.

The Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society meets on the second Friday of each month at:
Woodstock Community Centre
22 Church Street
Burwood
NSW 2134
Time: 7.30 pm—10.00 pm
(car park access via Fitzroy Street)

The Brisbane chapter of the Society meets on the first Friday of each month:
Kenmore Library,
Brookfield Road
Kenmore
Time: 7.00 pm—10.00 pm

Our postal address is:
PO Box 70
Burwood
N.S.W. 1805

We have a Facebook page.
We also have a YouTube channel.

Our main site and forum are here: http://www.auscps.com/.

AUSCPS membership application (PDF)

Sundews and bladderworts: Discover Tasmanian native carnivorous plants (ABC)

Sundews and bladderworts: Discover Tasmanian native carnivorous plants
By Paul McIntyre
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Darren Cullen’s collection of flesh-hungry flora ranges from the commonly found and produced carnivores to rare endemic plants.

“We get people travelling here to see Tasmanian carnivorous plants,” he said.

“I pick them up from Hobart Airport, drive two minutes, pull over — it’s that easy.

“We have two genera of carnivorous plants here, Drosera and Utricularia, otherwise known as sundews and bladderworts.

“You grow bladderworts for their amazing flowers as the traps are underground.”

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Carniflora News, July 2017

Full download: Carniflora News, July 2017 (PDF)

AusCPS talk: Stewart McPherson and the discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii

 

Watch Stewart McPherson’s June 2017 talk on the discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii:

[Book launch] Drosera of the World

The Australasian Carnivorous Plant Society Inc. is pleased to host the international book launch for Redfern Natural History’s 3-volume Drosera of the World.

 

 

Volume I: Oceania

 

 

 

 

Volume II: Oceania, Asia, Europe, North America

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Volume III: Latin America and Africa

 

 

 

Contributors (alphabetical order):
Greg Bourke
Andreas Fleischmann
Robert Gibson
Paulo Gonella
Allen Lowrie
Stewart McPherson
Richard Nunn
Barry Rice
Alastair Robinson

Place:
Woodstock Community Centre
22 Church Street
Burwood
NSW 2134
(car park access via Fitzroy Street)

Date and time:
Friday, 09 June 2017, 7:30pm.

Carniflora News, June 2017

Full download: Carniflora News, June 2017 (PDF)

 

Koi, Pet and Garden Show 2017

The Society will have a stall at the Koi, Pet and Garden Show this year.

When:
Sunday 21 March 2017
0900 — 1600

Where:
Fairfield Showground
Smithfield Road
Prairiewood
NSW

Carniflora News, May 2017

Full download: Carniflora News, May 2017 (PDF)