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Another one of our orange Pygmy Drosera flowers. This one is distinctive by its white or greyish styles and filaments.
I notice that when the flower closes each day, it resembles a maroon flower. Each of these pygmy Drosera have a different way of closing their flowers.
Photo: Jean
The Pygmy Drosera are starting to appear around the granite rocks. This one can flower before its sticky leaves/lamina appear.
The Drosera lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces.
The botanical name from the Greek δρόσος drosos "dew, dewdrops"[8] refer to the glistening drops of mucilage at the tip of the glandular trichomes that resemble drops of morning dew. The English common name sundew also describes this, derived from Latin ros solis meaning "dew of the sun".
The Principia Botanica, published in 1787, states “Sun-dew (Drosera) derives its name from small drops of a liquor-like dew, hanging on its fringed leaves, and continuing in the hottest part of the day, exposed to the sun.”[9]
Droseraceae - Drosera nitidula
Pygmy drosera are often found in damp swampy soils sometimes growing in large colonies and at other times plants will be solitary.
Photos:Jean
12 February 2013
Another one of our orange Pygmy Drosera flowers. This one is distinctive by its white or greyish styles and filaments.
I notice that when the flower closes each day, it resembles a maroon flower. Each of these pygmy Drosera have a different way of closing their flowers.
Photo: Jean
A pygmy drosera growing in white sand to 8cm. There are many this year.
The colour of the petals can vary to pink and edges of the petals can also vary considerably.
Photo: Jean
Common name: Shining Sundew
A tiny Pygmy drosera growing in a winter wet depression. The flowers can have three or four red stigma in the centre of the white petals. The stamens produce orange pollen.
Photo: Jean
The Pygmy Drosera are starting to appear around the granite rocks. This one can flower before its sticky leaves/lamina appear.
The Drosera lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces.
The botanical name from the Greek δρόσος drosos "dew, dewdrops"[8] refer to the glistening drops of mucilage at the tip of the glandular trichomes that resemble drops of morning dew. The English common name sundew also describes this, derived from Latin ros solis meaning "dew of the sun".
The Principia Botanica, published in 1787, states “Sun-dew (Drosera) derives its name from small drops of a liquor-like dew, hanging on its fringed leaves, and continuing in the hottest part of the day, exposed to the sun.”[9]
Drosera helodes gemmae. The pygmy sundews of Australia produce gemmae in the winter which are tissue buds that are capable of gowing into a new plant that is genetically identical to the parent plant.
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Common name: Shining Sundew
A tiny Pygmy drosera growing in a winter wet depression. The flowers can have three or four red stigma in the centre of the white petals. The stamens produce orange pollen.
Photo: Fred
Drosera omissa x pulchella. One of the fun things about pygmy Drosera is that the flowers can be almost as large (and in some cases much larger) as the actual plant.
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Common name: Shining Sundew
A tiny Pygmy drosera growing in a winter wet depression. The flowers can have three or four red stigma in the centre of the white petals. The stamens produce orange pollen.
Photo: Jean
The Pygmy Drosera are starting to appear around the granite rocks. This one can flower before its sticky leaves/lamina appear.
The Drosera lure, capture, and digest insects using stalked mucilaginous glands covering their leaf surfaces.
The botanical name from the Greek δρόσος drosos "dew, dewdrops"[8] refer to the glistening drops of mucilage at the tip of the glandular trichomes that resemble drops of morning dew. The English common name sundew also describes this, derived from Latin ros solis meaning "dew of the sun".
The Principia Botanica, published in 1787, states “Sun-dew (Drosera) derives its name from small drops of a liquor-like dew, hanging on its fringed leaves, and continuing in the hottest part of the day, exposed to the sun.”[9]
Another one of our orange Pygmy Drosera flowers. This one is distinctive by its white or greyish styles and filaments.
I notice that when the flower closes each day, it resembles a maroon flower. Each of these pygmy Drosera have a different way of closing their flowers.
Photo: Jean
A pygmy drosera growing in white sand to 8cm. There are many this year.
The colour of the petals can vary to pink and edges of the petals can also very considerably.
Photo: Jean
Another one of our orange Pygmy Drosera flowers. This one is distinctive by its white or greyish styles and filaments.
I notice that when the flower closes each day, it resembles a maroon flower. Each of these pygmy Drosera have a different way of closing their flowers.
Photo: Jean
Another one of our orange Pygmy Drosera flowers. This one is distinctive by its white or greyish styles and filaments.
I notice that when the flower closes each day, it resembles a maroon flower. Each of these pygmy Drosera have a different way of closing their flowers.
Photo: Jean
These small carnivorous plants grow to around 4.5 cm high. FIowers are whitish to less that 5 mm across. We thought it was unusual to see these pygmy drosera with the occasional branching stems towards the apex.
These small carnivorous plants grow to around 4.5 cm high. FIowers are whitish to less that 5 mm across. We thought it was unusual to see these pygmy drosera with the occasional branching stems towards the apex.
Drosera sp
Flowering in November. Quite striking with its red pollen and pink edges on the petals.
5cm tall flower about 1.5cm across
Drosera sp
A beautiful Pygmy Drosera from today.
The Bee fly Aleucosia tridentata photo-bombed a flower as Fred was photographing it.
On a few of the flowers, the styles were covered in pollen. Notice the colour of the pollen.
Similar to Drosera walyunga
A pygmy drosera growing in white sand to 8cm. There are many this year.
The colour of the petals can vary to pink and edges of the petals can also very considerably.
Photo: Jean
This is my favorite pygmy sundew flower. I have been waiting all year to see this flower in bloom so I can take pictures of it and marvel at its orangeness and its beauty. Unfortunately they usually bloom while I'm at work and are almost closed by the time I get home. This one opened and the light was good, but I was already late to pick up a friend for her birthday lunch. I shot a few hand-held shots and ran out the door. This was the best of the ones I shot. Maybe I'll catch it next year!
A beautiful Pygmy Drosera from today.
The Bee fly photo-bombed a flower as Fred was photographing it.
On a few of the flowers, the styles were covered in pollen. Notice the colour of the pollen.
Similar to Drosera walyunga
Droseraceae: Drosera barbigera
The leaves or lamina on this pygmy Drosera are very distinctive in that they are long and thin. The flower is a beautiful orange with black centre with black ovary, stamens and styles. White pollen. Just to make things different.
It grows in masses in laterite gravel soils and is quite spectacular to see.
Another one of our orange Pygmy Drosera flowers. This one is distinctive by its white or greyish styles and filaments.
I notice that when the flower closes each day, it resembles a maroon flower. Each of these pygmy Drosera have a different way of closing their flowers.
Photo: Jean
The pygmy Drosera's are just coming out and are quite a beautiful little plant. The flower is about 1cm (1/2 inch) across and has stamens, ovary and styles. The plant itself is mostly about 3 - 4cm (1 1/2 to 2 inches) tall depending on the variety, with a rosette of leaves or lamina at the base. The lamina are covered with enzymes on stalks to capture insects.
Possibly Drosera hyperostigma Problem with it is that it is only supposed to have 3 style and this one has 4 and I didn't know that in the field and didn't look at other flowers.
These small carnivorous plants grow to around 4.5 cm high. FIowers are whitish to less that 5 mm across. We thought it was unusual to see these pygmy drosera with the occasional branching stems towards the apex.
Euzosteria sordida
ID David Rentz
Quite a pretty cockroach, I suspect of it chasing one of the many silverfish running around.
How do you like the spines on the legs?
Photo: Fred