Drosera adelae
Dear friends of greens,
Carnivorous plants have evolved under varying natural conditions from swamps to dry rocks, where they have faced acute shortage of nitrogenous elements in the absorbable forms to uptake or a total shortage of Nitrogen. During their natural course of evolution to combat this difficulty, they chose to adapt by turning "CARNIVOROUS". The term is infact misleading, as they usually try to capture and digest only small insect, preferably those members of the flying category with rather small body size. Preferentially, I would like to call them "INSECTIVOROUS' rather than entitling them carnivorous.
Of all the kinds of insectivorous plants you can find, the 3 sisters of Queensland (Drosera adelae, Drosera prolifera and Drosera schizandra) are rather curious in the fact that they chose to go back their way, by loosing their prey capture methodology. The continuous rains in the forest they inhabit and evolved have rather persuaded them to do so, it seems!.
And, here I present a beautiful baby plantlet of Drosera adelae, from my Garden. The plantlet have been developed at the base of my D. adelae mother plant, which have been repotted recently..
Dear friends of greens,
Carnivorous plants have evolved under varying natural conditions from swamps to dry rocks, where they have faced acute shortage of nitrogenous elements in the absorbable forms to uptake or a total shortage of Nitrogen. During their natural course of evolution to combat this difficulty, they chose to adapt by turning "CARNIVOROUS". The term is infact misleading, as they usually try to capture and digest only small insect, preferably those members of the flying category with rather small body size. Preferentially, I would like to call them "INSECTIVOROUS' rather than entitling them carnivorous.
Of all the kinds of insectivorous plants you can find, the 3 sisters of Queensland (Drosera adelae, Drosera prolifera and Drosera schizandra) are rather curious in the fact that they chose to go back their way, by loosing their prey capture methodology. The continuous rains in the forest they inhabit and evolved have rather persuaded them to do so, it seems!.
And, here I present a beautiful baby plantlet of Drosera adelae, from my Garden. The plantlet have been developed at the base of my D. adelae mother plant, which have been repotted recently..
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A detailed know how on care and growth of D. adelae is to follow shortly.
Till then,
Wishing you all a green thumb,
Alen Alex Philip
