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http://s216.photobucket.com/albums/cc54/turkeypig/Collection 9i18i10/

Basically the same post from the ICPS boards, but not everyone is over there.

Dad wanted to be a photographer again so he took some pics of my plants.

D. falconeri is grown in the same conditions as my d. adelae, venusta, burmanii, aliciae, spathulata, etc.

D. regia was just repotted 3 weeks or so ago. Got really big; new leaves are about 25% larger.

D. roseana was recently purchased, but appreciates fruit flies. ::)

D. intermedia "Cuba" is a favorite of mine. It doesn't shout out like other sundews, and is very pretty by itself.

D. capensis... i found it's container, a coffee people cup, a few years ago at one of their (now shut down, except for PDX airport) shops. It was a velvet hammer shake.

Drosophila sp. are wingless, and bred by me.

Other plants are still recovering from my pruning and cleaning session in the summer.

Note that the pics might be a little large for some with older computers; they may exceed the limits, so i just added a link, for the sake of simplicity.
 
your falconeri looks small. almost too small. what are the temps of its growing conditions? your plant might be heading towards dormancy. if this is the case, you're going to have to let the pot completely dry out and water it sparingly (.25 inches of water in the tray) about every week.
 
no. its perfectly fine. it's internal clock has been messed up for quite some time now; most of the plant is "buried" beneath the soil, so it looks rather "small". I haven't had a more vigorous woolly drosera than this species. (temps = 80+ degrees)
 
Yes! I've been waiting for a long time! The roseana are amazing! Regia looks great, too.
The Falconeri look healthy to me- just a bit crowded now that there are 3 or 4 plants right next to each other. But what are those 2 things on the largest plant's leaves?
As for the D. intermedia 'Cuba', it looks a lot like D. capillaris to me, but I can't be for sure.
You can compare to any of my pics here: http://www.growsundews.com/sundews/drosera_intermedia_tropical_birdsnest_sundew.html
 
I think they all look wonderful. Anybody who can keep regia and falconeri going is doing a great job!
 
Actually, i haven't grown the clump of roseana for much longer than a week. But it has increased dew production, and appears to be responding very well to high light. (4ft t8 fixtures, no less than 2 inches from the plants)

As for the objects on the falconeri, i feed it fruit flies. It has responded with much vigor. I would certainly recommend keeping a small culture of wingless drosophila if you keep drosera; they are incredibly stupid and cannot escape even from weak seedling runts.

And i am almost certain that the D. intermedia "cuba" is not capillaris. The original grower was quite reputable. Now I'm just waiting for seed.
Doubt never hurts though.

*edit*
@Cplantaholic
You appear to be very knowledgeable on propagation. I will be a frequent visitor to your site, fyi. Beautiful plants.
*edit x 2*
I find that feeding d. peltata is quite certainly the only way to get it to grow, along with other, more specialist sundews, eg. burmanii, pygmies, etc. Just wanted to get that out there.
 
I really need to update the info on the site- i even have a few videos now that have been sitting in the hard drive memory banks for a while now...but hopefully it can help you a bit.

Your edit x2 is very true. D. indica fits in there as well.

kinda forgot I have pics of D. capillaris (lol), which might help too. Flowers and seed are the best id'ers though.

not an exact match, of course, but here's a form from Polk County for comparison:
Capillaris_longarm_Polk_Co_FL-1.JPG
 
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Gaaaahhh! They're all starting to blend together.

Is it just me, or does your D. capillaris look almost exactly like D. rotundifolia, except more upright?

But still, im pretty sure i have d. intermedia. My plant is still small; the mother plant from the grower was considerably larger (for the cuban form). And its leaves are more oblong than as round as your Polk County form.

Interesting... someone should officially untangle the mess that we call the genus Drosera.
 
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Hi turkeypig,

Looking at your "Cuba" plant, I am fairly certain this is the long arm form of Drosera capillaris collected in Tate's Hell Swamp in Florida. This is a very perplexing form, so different from most Drosera capillaris. Drosera intermedia have much thinner and longer petioles and white flowers. Also, the minute hairs on the petiole and the lamina underside exclude D. intermedia which is totally hairless in that regard. If your plant has pink flowers, you can be assured it is Drosera capillaris, long arm form. This plant has tuned up with many interesting "SP" names attached, I just reviewed another going by the name "SP Belem", and have seen also others labeled as D. rorimae Pink Flower. This isn't very surprising as ID's can often get confused when you have such a prolific seed producing species as this is! The real mystery is why does it look so different? Is it a hybrid allopolyploid with D. intermedia that through mutation was granted fertility? It's been debated long and often!

Taxonomists are always working on sorting out the mess, at least in habitat! Orphaned plants in collections are harder to sort out. Right now my friend Dr. Gibson is off for a 3 month field study which should finish his PhD thesis on Drosera peltata across its wide range, an adventure he's been on for 2 decades. There is much work to understanding whazzit, meanwhile we do our humble best to keep each other straight. Thanks very much for providing an interesting topic!
 
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@ Tamlin:

Yes i thoroughly agree. Intermedia is certainly more glaborous.
I see your points now.
But i'll wait for more opinions from elsewhere before i make my final decision on it.

And is that Dr. Robert Gibson of the land of Oz? I certainly remember him and Fuzzy (with umlaut) from that trip in 08. Good luck to him on that voyage for identifying D. peltata.

Now Im going to try to sort our the mess i undoubtedly have upstairs...
 
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