Drosera moorei Species Profile
Drosera moorei is a sundew known for its yellow flowers and red scrambling stem. Drosera moorei has a thin stem that grows to around 35 cm in length. This stem…
Drosera bicolor Species Profile
Drosera bicolor is an erect tuberous sundew endemic to Western Australia. The species is named after its two-coloured petals that feature a red dot against a white base. Drosera bicolor…
Drosera fimbriata Species Profile
Drosera fimbriata is a fan-leaved tuberous sundew endemic to the south coast of Western Australia. The species is named for its whorls of fimbriated non-carnivorous leaves at the base of…
Drosera esperensis Species Profile
Drosera esperensis is a tuberous sundew known for its pretty white and pink flowers. It is endemic to the coastal granite outcrops east of the Western Australian town of Esperence,…
Species profile: Drosera stipularis
Drosera stipularis is a rare sundew in the section Lasiocephala notable for its diminutive size and prominent stipules. The species was described by Baleeiro et al in 2020. Despite being…
Giant Drosera binata in the Southern Highlands, NSW
The Southern Highlands is a region south of Sydney notable for its sandstone plateaus. Heathlands are common at the top of these plateaus, forming atop the shallow sandy soils that…
Drosera arcturi Species Profile
Drosera arcturi is an alpine sundew native to the coldest parts of SE Australia and New Zealand. The species is named after its type location of 'Mt Arthur, Tasmania'. D.…
Drosera arcturi on Mt Kosciuszko
In mid-January 2022, I went up to Australia's highest mountain range in search of Drosera arcturi - a sundew that grows in the coldest parts of Australia and New Zealand.…
Drosera filiformis leaf cutting time-lapse
A time-lapse of a threadleaf sundew (D. filiformis) plantlet emerging from a submerged leaf cutting. My longest time-lapse yet at just under 2 months. The video is equivalent to 155,500…
The Drosera binata wall
In the gullies of the Blue Mountains, the creeks erode the variously porous layers of sandstone, forming seepages out of the rockface. Drosera binata colonises these seepages, sometimes to incredible…