Drosera Capensis also known as Cape Sundew
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Sundew Plant Care
- Provide a light and acidic soil mixture that holds in moisture.
- Sundews need full sun or partial sunlight to grow.
- Water with distilled water or rainwater.
- Give your sundew a high amount of humidity.
Cape sundews need at least 6 hours of light, but 8 to 12 hours is the best.
A combination of full and partial light is the optimal option but artificial lighting also helps.
A combination of full and partial light is the optimal option but artificial lighting also helps.
Drosera Prolifera
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Drosera prolifera is a species of Drosera found in Queensland, Australia. It is also known as the Hens and Chicks Sundew or Trailing Sundew. Drosera prolifera is one of the “Three Sisters of Queensland” and is very easy to sundew to grow.
Do not put this plant in direct light as it will kill the plant. Make sure that you put it in a place with high humidity, low light, cool temperatures.
Do not put this plant in direct light as it will kill the plant. Make sure that you put it in a place with high humidity, low light, cool temperatures.
- Plant size - 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter
- Light - Shade
- Potting medium - Peat moss & Perlite
- Feeding - Dried bloodworms, or fish food every 3-4 weeks
- Never use fertilizer
- Water - Use the tray method
- Humidity - 70 to 90%
- Temperature - 50 to 80°F
- Mature plant size - 1-2"
- Dormancy - None
Drosera spatulata, the spoon-leaved sundew???
Purchases from Baker Nursery in 2024_NOID on either plant
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Drosera spatulata, the spoon-leaved sundew, is a variable, rosette-forming sundew with spoon-shaped leaves. The specific epithet is Latin for "spatula shaped," a reference to the form of the leaves. This sundew has a large range and occurs naturally throughout Southeast Asia, southern China and Japan, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, eastern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Variants are often known by the localities in which they are found. The plant does not form hibernacula in winter and is easily grown using the same methods as Drosera capensis.
Carnivorous plant growers consider Drosera spatulata to be a weed because it is very hardy and produces copious amounts of seed when it flowers. The seed also germinates without much difficulty, causing little plants to pop up in surrounding pots.
Description
Detail of the leaf of Drosera spatulata with the sticky trichomes that it uses to attract and catch flies and other insects.
Drosera spatulata is a variable perennial plant that produces small rosettes of numerous spathulate leaves. This species is widely variable, but generally plants are about 1.6 in diameter. Each leaf is attached to the central rosette by a narrow 8 mm long petiole that is only glandular on the upper half. Individual leaf laminae are typically 5 mm long and 4 mm wide. In early summer, plants will produce 8 cm (3.1 in) tall erect scapes with around six small white or pink flowers on each one-sided racemose inflorescence. Each flower can be up to 6 mm across.
Carnivorous plant growers consider Drosera spatulata to be a weed because it is very hardy and produces copious amounts of seed when it flowers. The seed also germinates without much difficulty, causing little plants to pop up in surrounding pots.
Description
Detail of the leaf of Drosera spatulata with the sticky trichomes that it uses to attract and catch flies and other insects.
Drosera spatulata is a variable perennial plant that produces small rosettes of numerous spathulate leaves. This species is widely variable, but generally plants are about 1.6 in diameter. Each leaf is attached to the central rosette by a narrow 8 mm long petiole that is only glandular on the upper half. Individual leaf laminae are typically 5 mm long and 4 mm wide. In early summer, plants will produce 8 cm (3.1 in) tall erect scapes with around six small white or pink flowers on each one-sided racemose inflorescence. Each flower can be up to 6 mm across.