Drosera
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A native Australian Climbing Sundew (Drosera Macrantha), taken at Mount Barker Summit in the Adelaide Hills.
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I spent a couple of weekends last year taking photos of these spectacular little carnivorous flowers, drosera peltata . This shot in particular looks makes them look strikingly like War of the Worlds aliens. I don’t usually do series of photographs, but I might upload a few more of these.
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‘Drosera Peltata’. I’d love to know what the attitude of hardcore vegetarians is towards plants that eat animals…. but as a fellow carnivore, it gets my respect!
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I found this tiny plant, one of the carnivorous Sundew family, at Scott Creek Conservation Park in the Adelaide Hills today, where we went bushwalking. Drosera, commonly known as the Sundews, comprise one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with over 170 species. The sundews lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surface. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition that sundews are able to obtain from the soil they grow in. Various species, which vary greatly in size and form, can be found growing natively on every continent except Antarctica. The name “sundew” refers to the glistening drops of mucilage at the tip of each tentacle that resemble droplets of morning dew – from Wikipedia. Taken with Ricoh GRII compact. You may also enjoy this image:
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This insect eater uses sticky leaves to collect insects. Those ‘drops’ you see are quite sticky – not water at all. Drosera Capenesis is quite easy to grow. It does require lots of light and loves the Humidity. Featured in the Macro group – September 2008
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a dainty species of drosera it is a carniverous plant
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A B&W version of a native Australian Climbing Sundew (Drosera Macrantha), taken at Mount Barker Summit in the Adelaide Hills.
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This is an extreme closeup of a tiny sundew flower, which I found today in the Scott Creek Conservation Park, in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. The sticky droplets attract and kill insects, so this is a carnivorous plant. See my other Sundews here and here Canon 40D, Sigma 17-70 Sundew Macro featured in the group Extreme Close-Ups in June 2009. Thanks so much!
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drosera sun dew glistens with sticky exudation that attracts small bugs that get traped in the glandular hairs
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I found this tiny plant, one of the carnivorous Sundew family, at Scott Creek Conservation Park in the Adelaide Hills today, where we went bushwalking. Drosera, commonly known as the Sundews, comprise one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with over 170 species. The sundews lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surface. The insects are used to supplement the poor mineral nutrition that sundews are able to obtain from the soil they grow in. Various species, which vary greatly in size and form, can be found growing natively on every continent except Antarctica. The name “sundew” refers to the glistening drops of mucilage at the tip of each tentacle that resemble droplets of morning dew – from Wikipedia. Taken with Ricoh GRII compact. you may also like this image:
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Drosera peltata / Wandilo Native Forest Reserve / South Australia Copyright Wayne Bigg / All Rights Reserved. / Do not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify my photography without my express consent.
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Tiny sundew plants at the Brisbane Ranges, south-west of Melbourne. Nikon D300 and 50mm macro lens.
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Spatulate-leafed Sundew / (Drosera intermedia) This bog-dwelling plant supplements its nutrition-poor diet by luring and trapping insects with its sticky, glandular leaf hairs. / Once a hapless insect has touched the sticky droplets, the “tentacles” wrap slowly, inexorably around its body and / enzymes eventually digest the prey. Description: / -A short-lived, insectivorous perennial herb of open bogs. / -Leaves a basal rosette. Blades 2-3 times as long as wide; petioles smooth, ¾”2” long. Upper surface of blades covered with reddish, glandular hairs tipped with a sticky, glutinous secretion that traps insects. / -Flowers white, several borne on one side of a leafless stalk, the stalk growing from side of plant base and curving upward to 8” tall. / -Sepals 5, 3mm-4mm long / -Petals 5, white, 4mm-5mm long / -Fruit a dry capsule containing many seeds / -Seed tiny, red brown, and covered with small bumps, to 1mm long. / / Identification: Unmistakable as a Sundew; nothing else like it in the North Country. / Distinguished from the other North Country Sundew, the Round Leaf Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) by the oblong, rather than round, leaf. / Distribution: Circumboreal; Newfoundland to Minnesota, Montana, and Idaho. / Habitat: Low places in open bogs, sandy shores; often in shallow water. / Very well adapted to the nutrient deficient “soils” of northern bogs. / / Sunset Bay bog, / Lake Muskoka / Ontario, Canada Nikon D40X with 105 mm Micro-Nikkor, / from kayak
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Drosera peltata / Wandilo Native Forest Reserve / South Australia Copyright Wayne Bigg / All Rights Reserved. / Do not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify my photography without my express consent.
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Drosera peltata / Wandilo Native Forest Reserve / South Australia Copyright Wayne Bigg / All Rights Reserved. / Do not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify my photography without my express consent.
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A sundew found in seeps and roadside ditches. Bayou George, Northwest Florida. It grows in flat rosettes. I left the pine needle there for comparison. It lives in community with the threadleaf sundew. The following comes from Springerlink: Summary Earlier feeding experiments with Drosera in the field using adult Drosophila melanogaster as prey had shown that D. intermedia reacts three times as strong with respect to biomass production as the sympatric species D. rotundifolia. The present study shows that in D. rotundifolia only 29% of added flies remain on the leaves for more than 24 h, but 95% in D. intermedia. Opportunistic predators, mostly ants, are likely to be responsible for this difference. Ants were often observed robbing food from the leaves of D. rotundifolia, and showed a much higher activity in the microhabitat of this species. In both species of Drosera larger individuals were better than smaller ones in retaining added flies. The activity of ants significantly increased with air temperature and the duration of sunshine. The advantage of plundering seems to be more important for the ants than the danger of being caught. The prey collected from Drosera may be an important source of food for bog-dwelling ants.
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Drosera peltata with prey / Wandilo Native Forest Reserve / South Australia Copyright Wayne Bigg / All Rights Reserved. / Do not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify my photography without my express consent.
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Sundews catching the last rays of sun for the day / Drosera peltata / Wandilo Native Forest Reserve / South Australia Copyright Wayne Bigg / All Rights Reserved. / Do not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify my photography without my express consent.
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Round-leafed Sundew / (Drosera rotundifolia) This bog-dwelling plant supplements its / nutrition-poor diet by luring and trapping / insects with its sticky, glandular leaf hairs. / Once a hapless insect has touched the / sticky droplets, the “tentacles” wrap / slowly, inexorably around its body and / enzymes eventually digest the prey. Nikon D40X with 105 mm Micro-Nikkor, / from kayak
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A shot of my Drosera Capensis in flower. These flowers are less than 1cm in diameter but sure make up for that in colour
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Mount Chudalup (Western Australia) is a large granite outcrop that rises about 100m above the surrounding plains. There are fantastic views over the wildeness, but at your feet there are carpets of moss and carnivorous plants such as Drosera (sundews) and bladderworts. Not a safe place for an insect.
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