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Found 4 March 2008 Wannamal West on private property under the reeds near a farm dam.
Photo: Jean
Update: 14-05-2022 Thilo Kreuger
"Thanks for sharing these pictures, this is indeed a very interesting find. It is a pygmy sundew hybrid. ...your plant could indeed be the never-observed D. nitidula × pulchella."
Update: 25 June 2024 Refer: Drosera × badgerupii Cheek. P286-288 Carnivorous Plants of Australia Vol 1 Allen Lowrie.
Pygmy Sundews (Drosera eneabba), tiny insectivorous plants growing in rocky lateritic soil. Mount Lesueur National Park, Jurien Bay, Western Australia.
Drosera helodes is a pygmy sundew from Australia. It is a carnivorous plant that catches and digests tiny insects in the sticky dew it produces on its leaves. This adaptation allows them to grow in nutrient poor soils. The pygmy sundews produce gemmae which are modified buds of tissue that can detach from the parent plant and grow into a new plant that will be a clone of the original.
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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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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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Pygmy Sundew Drosera omissa x pulchella. The pygmy sundews are native to Australia. This man-made hybrid is probably the easiest to grow in cultivation. They are about the size of a penny when full grown. Pygmy sundews can be easily propagated by the gemmae that they produce in the winter.
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Found 4 March 2008 Wannamal West on private property under the reeds near a farm dam. Petals were glossy white with pink tinge! Three or four styles in the centre of flower.
Photo: Jean
Update: 14-05-2022 Thilo Kreuger
"Thanks for sharing these pictures, this is indeed a very interesting find. It is a pygmy sundew hybrid. ...your plant could indeed be the never-observed D. nitidula × pulchella."
Update: 25 June 2024 Refer: Drosera × badgerupii Cheek. P286-288 Carnivorous Plants of Australia Vol 1 Allen Lowrie.
Pygmy or Tiny Sundew Drosera pygmaea, Myamyn, Victoria.
A very small carnivourous plant, only a few millimetres across, that grows in damp area of sandy heath.
An orange-flowered species of Pygmy Sundew, which I presume to be Drosera miniata. Lesueur National Park, in Western Australia, near Jurien Bay.
The Australian Pitcher Plant was first observed by European science in 1801 and to this day remains one of many enigmatic plants of Australia. Cephalotus has no direct relation to any of the other four known genera of pitcher plants of the world. Cephalotus follicularis is one of 100+ species of carnivorous or insectivorous plants which inhabit southwestern Australia - home of the greatest concentration of carnivorous plants in the world. It is likely that there are nearly as many species of Drosera (sundews) in soutwestern Australia as there are all species of carnivorous plants worldwide.
Plants in this series are from one of five sites visited for Cephalotus on a trip with Redfern Natural History Expeditions in October 2018. On the trip, we photographed nearly 100 species of carnivorous plants and many additional orchids during 2 weeks of travel in a relatively small area of southwest Australia.
Found 4 March 2008 Wannamal West on private property under the reeds near a farm dam.
Photo: Jean
Update: 14-05-2022 Thilo Kreuger
"Thanks for sharing these pictures, this is indeed a very interesting find. It is a pygmy sundew hybrid. ...your plant could indeed be the never-observed D. nitidula × pulchella."
Update: 25 June 2024 Refer: Drosera × badgerupii Cheek. P286-288 Carnivorous Plants of Australia Vol 1 Allen Lowrie.
Found 4 March 2008 Wannamal West on private property under the reeds near a farm dam.
Photo: Jean
Update: 14-05-2022 Thilo Kreuger
"Thanks for sharing these pictures, this is indeed a very interesting find. It is a pygmy sundew hybrid. ...your plant could indeed be the never-observed D. nitidula × pulchella."
Update: 25 June 2024 Refer: Drosera × badgerupii Cheek. P286-288 Carnivorous Plants of Australia Vol 1 Allen Lowrie.
Sundew leaves. The little glandular hairs has enzymes on the leaves for catching insects and absorbing nutrients from them.
This is one of the larger sundew plants, not a pygmy sundew
I has little Sundew bugs (unfortunately not visible in this shot) that live and feed on the leaves. They run underneath for protection.
Carnivorous plant.
A tiny species of Sundew (Drosera sp.) growing in the sand. I think that the species is probably either D. spilos or D. eneabba. Photographed along Coorow-Green Head Road, east of Green Head, north of Lesueur National Park, in Western Australia.
Sundews are perennial (or rarely annual) herbaceous plants, forming prostrate or upright rosettes between 1 and 100 cm (0.39 and 39.37 in) in height, depending on the species. Climbing species form scrambling stems which can reach much longer lengths, up to 3 m (9.8 ft) in the case of D. erythrogyne.[3] Sundews have been shown to be able to achieve a lifespan of 50 years.[4] The genus is so specialized for nutrient uptake through its carnivorous behavior, the pygmy sundew is missing the enzymes (nitrate reductase, in particular)[5] that plants normally use for the uptake of earth-bound nitrates.
(Wikipedia)
Drosera pygmaea is generally found in drier soils where it often forms dense mats. This population is entering its summer dormancy period.
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!
The modified leaves (or gemmae) in the centre of this pygmy sundew have an appealing arrangement and contrast nicely against the white stipules.
Found 4 March 2008 Wannamal West on private property under the reeds near a farm dam.
Photo: Jean
Update: 14-05-2022 Thilo Kreuger
"Thanks for sharing these pictures, this is indeed a very interesting find. It is a pygmy sundew hybrid. ...your plant could indeed be the never-observed D. nitidula × pulchella."
Update: 25 June 2024 Refer: Drosera × badgerupii Cheek. P286-288 Carnivorous Plants of Australia Vol 1 Allen Lowrie.
An orange-flowered species of Pygmy Sundew, which I presume to be Drosera miniata. Lesueur National Park, in Western Australia, near Jurien Bay.
a tiny pygmy sundew no taller than 5 cm. Growing here in clayey loams on laterite in the Western Australian central wheatbelt.
This video shows how to separate gemmae from a plant and how to sew them to make new plants. Drosera Scorpioides is a pygmy sundew.
More info on this interesting little plant can be found here:
www.nzcps.co.nz/NZCPSDroserapygmaea.html
Seen on the Chasm Creek Walkway.