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Drosera seedling ID

So, I received a plug of u. sandersonii a few months ago and recently noticed some stowaway drosera seedlings. (Huzzah for extra plants!) I liberated them from the sandersonii and put them in their own pot. Trouble is, I have no idea what they may be. Any chance someone here can help me out?

Here are two photos I snapped with my phone:




 
Too soon to tell I think, you'll have to wait a bit more for them to mature and then I think we can identify it. But right now if I had to guess, I'd say it looks like Spathulata or Rotundifolia.
 
Thanks! I was thinking rotundifolia too.

I guess I'll wait a few months and see what they look like then.
 
I concur with TOG 100%..
 
Unfortunately, a lot of Drosera have oblong leaves. The possibilities that I can come up with (from most confident to least confident) are D. rotundifolia, D. spatulata, D. intermedia, D. capensis, D. capillaris, or any other species that I may have forgotten.
 
Iam thinking dielsiana
 
My guess would be either spatulata or capensis
 
Whoops, I forgot Drosera aliciae! Although Drosera dielsiana is also a possibility. It could also be a Fraser Island D. spatulata.
 
Well, this is exciting! They've been developing pretty quickly and are beginning to look very rosette-y. I'll keep all your recommendations in mind and report back with photos once these little guys grow up.
 
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Spatulata fraser island always stays flat for me and have skiny petioles look at a thread Just a few do pics thers some dielsiana pics they look very similar thick petioles that look a little raised then flaten out at the leaf blade. Capensis and capillaris and rotundifolia as seedlings have skiny elongated petioles.
 
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  • #11
I'm inclined to say that it looks like a D. capensis seedling. Nice cat profile pic!
 
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Alright... after browsing some picture threads on here and weeding through Google image searches, I'm wondering if these guys are D. dielsiana. The petioles seem a little too wide and flattened to be D. spatulata, but maybe the plants are still too young to tell?

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To further complicate things, one of the other seedlings is looking quite different from the others. Capensis?

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Thank you all for your help!
 
  • #13
The first seedlings remind me of either something along the lines of spatulata, but more closely D. tokaiensis or the hybrid. The second is definitely capensis.
 
  • #14
I'm going to have to say it's D. rodundifola, D. spatulata, or tokaiensis. Here's a pot full of dielsiana seedlings for comparison I think the petioles are shorter and there's much less spooning.

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  • #15
Now that they have sized up i would say tokaiensis
 
  • #16
And the second one is capensis
 
  • #17
Apologies for resurrecting this old thread, but the mystery drosera is all grown up!

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  • #18
I'd say it looks a lot like D. venusta now, or a relative. It certainly has the look of a South African species, what with the hairy petioles and the tentacles covering most of the leaf.
 
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