Today's photographs were taken over seven years ago, with my first digital camera.
Lindsay Bourque wrote today's entry:
Native to lowland temperate Asia, Europe and North America, this species is commonly known as round-leaf sundew. Drosera rotundifolia inhabits areas with little available nutrients. To survive, it catches insects with sensitive, sticky glandular leaf hairs. Once an insect is stuck in the mucilage, the leaf hairs partially enfold the insect. Proteolytic enzymes are then secreted to dissolve the prey, with the nutrients derived from the insect absorbed by the leaves to feed this insectivore.
For more photographs of round-leaved sundew, including close-ups of both the flowers and the glandular leaf hairs, see the Burke Museum's page on Drosera rotundifolia.
A facinating plant I wish I could find in my area. Beautiful images!
Great pix, Daniel. I know from experience how hard they are to photograph. It's always a treat to find sundew.
Given the season, a timely photo. The trailing vine in the upper photo appears to be cranberry.
I was just reading about this amazing adaptation in "Botany for Gardeners". This one's leaf hairs are so beautiful.
lind planta, aca tembien tenemos una Drocera...
I am always intrigued by the latin/greek names given to plants and always want to know what they mean. It is not often such information is included. It the case of this sundew it
Drosera, from the Greek, droseros meaning dewy ,watery and rotundifolia from the Latin, rotundus meaning round, spherical and folius meaning
leaf.
I think this information should be included with all you plants names/descriptions.
This almost looks like somthing you would find in the ocean. Sooooooo cool!
Did my undergrad thesis on this species (and a couple of others). Still delighted every time I see it. I've found it growing in a relatively wide variety of habitats, it is fairly tolerant compared to some Drosera species.
Agree that it can be hard to get a good picture of both leaves and flower scapes in focus, have often had to lie down on the (sometimes damp) ground!
click on the inks and search ilike to see
what i can come up with on my own
thank you daniel i keep thinking about
a play is it the little shop of horrors
and the plant that grows larger and
larger and larger eats a human or two
I know that when I found this gem growing in the thousands at the bottom of a quarry in New England in an area flooded by flowing spring water, I thought that the reason it was able to survive the below zero N.E. winters was because of the temperature of the spring water, and the fact that it was covered with a roof of snow, which would act as insulation. Until today, I never realized that it was so winter hardy as to survive in North Dakota (-42 degrees F at times).
Does anyone know what mechanism this delicate looking jewel uses to cope with such temperatures?
Carol
Great picture! I found these growing in an upland bog at Dolly Sods (West Virginia) among the cranberries. But they were so tiny I couldn't get a good picture.
Great photos of a plant thats hard to photograph. Thanks.
Adolf Ceska sent this photograph along, with the commentary: “ATTACHED is my photo of Drosera rotundifolia. It was also taken with my first digital camera and I did not know what I was doing.”
(I think he's being too humble, as usual)
Just love the colors and way it is photographed,very inspirational
Hi there,
Excellent photos! Can we (Burns Bog Conservation Society) use these images for educational and promotional purposes? Please email me at communications@burnsbog.org
Thanks!
You're free to use the images in accordance with the Creative Commons License.