Sundew
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This Sundew is so TINY !! About 1cm (3/8th inch) across. But so beautiful !! / I’m not sure if it’s technically a flower as it’s a carnivorous plant, but it looks like a flower to me :) Taken in Perth Western Australia Canon 400D : Sigma macro 50mm lens : f2.8 : 1/200 : ISO 800 / No flash. Slight crop at top and bottom. FEATURED IN THE AS IS GROUP (twice) / FEATURED IN THE 1:1 MACRO GROUP / FEATURED IN THE NATURES WONDERS GROUP / FEATURED IN THE MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP / FEATURED IN THE PHOTOGRAPHY 101 GROUP / FEATURED IN THE WA REDBUBBLERS GROUP PLACED 1st IN THE AS IS GROUPS “NATURAL FLOWER” CHALLENGE / PLACED 5th IN THE BITS & PIECES GROUPS “FAVORITE PLANT” CHALLENGE / PLACED 3rd IN THE PHOTOGRAPHY 101 GROUPS “MACRO” CHALLENGE
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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 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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Drops of early morning dew on a climbing sundew – drosera macrantha / This looks great on canvas
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One of the lesser known carnivores, the sundew, aka Drosera Adelae in this case. This is not water droplets for those who don’t know, it is a very sticky substance designed to capture and digest insects. / Exposure, Tone Curve, Saturation. All images© Copyright by Benjamin Charles Mitchell / They may not be used in any way without written consent.
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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 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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Digital collage of ground orchids and sundew blooms. The pinks represent the colours of the pink heath that was flowering in the area.
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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, commonly known as the sundews, comprise one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with over 170 species. These members of the family Droseraceae 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. Both the botanical name (from the Greek δρόσος: “drosos” = “dew, dewdrops”) as well as the English common name (sundew, derived from Latin ros solis, meaning “dew of the sun”) refer to the glistening drops of mucilage at the tip of each tentacle that resemble drops of morning dew. Shot taken on Tom Heights in the English Lake District. / Sony Alpha 350 DSLR Sinle RAW tonemapped in Photomatix
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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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Sundew plant. / “I’ll grab you with imy sticky tentacles – but only if you’re tiny.”
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Drosera capensis, eating lunch
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Black Lake in Delamere Forest, near Chester, UK. It consists of a small pool with a floating lawn/bog development, attracting interesting flora and fauna such as numerous species of dragonfly and the sundew carnivorous plant.
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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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Sundew carnivorous plant catches its dinner at Kew Gardens, London
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We all have bad days…
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This sunset was taken on the beach area of the Fort Ilocandia Resort where we stayed whilst in Laoag in The Philippines. / The beach was just brilliant, with it’s local lifeguard, and live entertainment area. / .... / /
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Acrylic on canvas another painting for the savage garden series
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