#drosera adelae

[qk-yuan]

Made another little moss bowl thing, it's growing nicely! Hoping the drosera adelae gets redder though, maybe it's not close enough to the light...

[carnivorous-plants-nerd]

Carnivorous Plant of the Week (September 6th, 2021) - Drosera adelae

(Sorry the delay, everyone! Labor Day weekend ending up being very busy for me, so I once again didn’t have enough time to queue up this week’s Carnivorous Plant of the Week post in time for Monday. Oops!

In any case, thank you for your patience! I hope you enjoy this week’s chosen plant. And if anyone has any recommendations or requests for next week’s Plant of the Week, please let me know!)

[Photo originally found here, CC BY-SA 3.0]

A member of the very popular sundew family, Drosera adelae utilizes adhesive traps to catch and digest prey. Also known as the lance-leaf/lance-leaved sundew, the leaves of this sundew will slowly curl around captured prey to facilitate the breakdown and digestion of trapped insects.

Endemic to Australia, this variety of carnivorous plant is considered one of the “3 Sisters of Queensland” (a description coined by Peter D’Amato, I believe). The 3 Sisters of Queensland are a group of sundews that are closely related to one another, with the other two members of the group being Drosera prolifera and Drosera schizandra.

Generally regarded as a good sundew for beginners who don’t have a lot of experience with carnivorous plants, Drosera adelae often does very well as long as you take care of it. From the reading I’ve one, it generally prefers warmers temperatures and a decent amount of humidity, but can still be grown in locations with cooler temperature and lower humidity (your mileage may vary on this; the impression I got is that they’re not as picky as some carnivorous plants but even so some trial and error may be required to find a suitable range of temp/humidity depending on your individual set-up).

[shrimp-bird]

I don't appreciate enough how nice it is that not only am I growing lance-leafed sundews, it's needs are well met enough that it has multiplied from a single plant to a beautiful glistening little field of them.

[voreplants]

here’s how my D. adelae puppies are going! it’s hard to tell from the photo, but the plant in the second photo is a fair bit bigger than the ones in the first. they are all the same age, but the second plant was grown from a root cutting, while the others were a leaf cutting.

[saintrobot]

Thinking of getting a tattoo of one of my carnivorous plants. My drosera is flowering and looks pretty right now.

[plantsorbust]

i was so sure i killed this guy, then he came back and brought several babies with him.

[saintrobot]

Meanwhile this fucker is positively voracious.