
Originally Posted by
hcarlton
That's definitely tokaiensis. If the flowers barely or rarely open, are dark pink, and don't produce any seeds, then you've confirmed you've got the sterile form ("D. tokaiensis var. hyugaensis," the hybrid predecessor of the polyploid fertile type form). I don't know if I would necessarily call this one exciting, as it's the second most common weed sundew there is (second only to the fertile form) and the most mislabeled plant out there; more tokaiensis are distributed as "spatulata," "capillaris," "brevifolia," and a couple dozen rarer species names than anything else. Similarly I'd be wary of those "spatulata" seeds unless they came from a highly reputable source with a location or form designation as they might turn out to be the fertile tokai. It's a bomb-proof and vigorous plant, but unfortunately painfully ubiquitous.