Presenter: Damon Collingsworth

Last September Damon spent three days touring carnivore habitat in Northern California and Southern Oregon. Despite constant rain, bear scat, and warnings about "alpine farmers", they still charged forward on muddy roads in a rented car for the sake of better understanding these amazing plants. Points of interest will include Darlingtonia variation (including a spectacular red clone), seed distribution, sphagnum sporophytes, and a site exposed to extreme summer heat. The photos were hard-fought but well worth the trouble -- the plants were even more beautiful dripping wet from the very first rain of the season.

Damon Collingsworth is general manager and propagator for California Carnivores. He also maintains their webpage and takes all their photographs. He purchased his first carnivorous plant, a cape sundew, from Peter D'Amato in 1988 at a local flea market and has collected them ever since. Later, he became one of their first full-time employees. A couple years later, Damon got the opportunity to move to Borneo and manage the nursery at Malesiana Tropicals from 2001-02. With twenty years of experience growing carnivorous plants, we are delighted to welcome Damon.

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