RE: Request of help on some australian plants
- To: R*@sp.agric.wa.gov.au
- Subject: RE: Request of help on some australian plants
- From: B*@monterey.edu (Barry Garcia)
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:46:28 -0800
RPRandall@sp.agric.wa.gov.au writes:
>I like the claim that the sundews 'find their food in the air', almost
>true
>I guess, in that it usually flys in in the form of tiny insects... but
>yes
>Drosera spp.
>are commonly called sundews and can be either flat teardrop shaped leaves
>in
>a rosette or long climbing tendrils, with tiny cup shaped leaves edged
>with
>sticky drops, twining through the grasses or low herbs and intermediate
>types as well.
>Very attractive little plants with papery pink, white or yellow flowers in
>little clusters. They look stunning in early morning with the sun shining
>through 1000's of sticky droplets of hundreds of twining sundews, a
>rainbow
>of golds and yellows shimmering in the breeze.
Also i heard they're related to the venus flytraps (which i saw at a local
nursery). The reason they eat insects is because the soils they grow in
lack nitrogen.
On a related note, i like how Darlingtonia californicas look. Theyre
sometimes called california pitcher plant or cobra lily, because their
leaves look somewhat like a snake rearing up with its tongue sticking out
(they have a forked appendage on the hood)
