Drosera scorpioides Species Profile
Drosera scorpioides is a pygmy sundew endemic to south-west Western Australia. The species is notable for forming a tall stem of old growth, topped by an attractive raised rosette of…
Drosera scorpioides is a pygmy sundew endemic to south-west Western Australia. The species is notable for forming a tall stem of old growth, topped by an attractive raised rosette of…
Drosera rosulata is a rosetted tuberous species endemic to Western Australia. The species is somewhat morphologicaly variable, especially in size, but is identified by the depressed central vein of its…
Drosera ramellosa is a fan leaved tuberous sundew endemic to Western Australia. The species has 1-3 erect stems that arise from a basal rosette. The leaves on the erect stem…
Drosera arcturi growing in the Baw Baw Plateau, Victoria.
Here's a 3 week time-lapse I shot of a Drosera scorpioides gemma. At the start of the growing season, pygmy sundews produce modified leaves called gemmae that each enclose a…
Drosera pygmaea is a pygmy sundew native to Australia and New Zealand. It is the only pygmy sundew that is found outside of Western Australia (although it also found along…
Drosera purpurascens is a fan-leaved tuberous sundew in the Stolonifera complex. It is distinguished from its relatives by its compact morphology and long petioles. These petioles emerge out of the…
Drosera prophylla is an erect tuberous species that grows in laterite hilltops in Western Australia. As its specific epithet references, it grows numerous non-carnivorous bracts (prophylls) at the base of…
Drosera porrecta is a member of the fan-leaved tuberous sundews endemic to Western Australia. The species is identified by its whorls of leaves, which emerge at regular intervals from an…
Drosera platypoda is a fan-leaved tuberous sundew that grows in the south coast of Western Australia. It grows a single erect stem up to 20 cm tall, out of which…