At first glance, these small innocuous plants could easily be overlooked, in fact, I thought initially they were a type of buzzy weed. They have almost unnoticeable little pink flowers on top.
On closer inspection, I was surprised to find this is one of Tasmania’s carnivorous plants – I didn’t even know we had them!
“Drosera auriculata, commonly called the Tall sundew is an erect, tuberous species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera. It is similar in shape and stature to Drosera gracilis and Drosera gunniana, and generally has pink flowers. It can be distinguished from other species in the Drosera peltata complex by having glabrous sepals, which are instead hairy in other members of the complex.“
Source: Tall sundew (Carnivorous plants of Tasmania) · iNaturalist Australia (ala.org.au)
These images were taken over about two weeks waiting for the flowers to open and catching it’s “eating” process. They are one of the first flowering plants to bounce back after the big forest burn off shown in the previous post. So far I’ve observed quite a few of them in a fairly limited area, I find them quite fascinating.
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They are fascinating!
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Thanks, indeed ! 🙂
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Amazing! It looks like they are little alien plants evolving into tiny rosebuds.
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Now you mention it, yes! Bug eating aliens trying hard to look pretty.
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They are beautiful and fascinating! I hope they won’t eat humans in the future.
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Thanks John, hopefully they will evolve only just enough to eat feral cats 😛
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LOL!!! 😂
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Oh my! Fantastic shots and amazing, Tas!
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Thanks Jane, amazing the things you can stumble upon just looking at the ground!
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At first I thought it was horrible (for a bug to die a death like that) but then I remembered that a lot of animals eat plants. So why not a plant that gets revenge over lunch?
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Ha! I was thinking … I hope they like mosquitos and get a good feed! Sweet revenge to the deadliest animal on the planet 😀
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Wouldn’t that be too good to be true!
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