Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Ah, one of the guys brought a professional camera and finally! Some pics that really do these things justice. These are plants from the Drosera petiolaris complex, exclusively found in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, also known as the "woolly sundews" due to the presence of hair on their petioles.
Yep, really rare things, and perilously tricky to propagate as well. They are not self-fertile, seeds are utterly-rare to come by and take up to 2 years to germinate, and cuttings of any sort do not usually work. So yep. It took me a good 8 years to track the entire complex down, and obtaining plants of different genotypes so that seed production may be possible.
Drosera lanata
Drosera fulva "miniature form" - Northern Territory
Drosera aff. ordensis - Kingston Rest, Kimberley, Western Australia
aff. = affinis. An undescribed one that strongly-resembles D.ordensis, and with dramatic colouration.
Drosera aff. petiolaris "pincushion form" - Northern Territory
Drosera falconeri - Palmerston
Original site almost extinct.
During a rare flowering event:
Drosera paradoxa "pink flower"
Drosera darwinensis - Northern Territory
Drosera dilatato-petiolaris - Northern Territory
Drosera broomensis
Drosera kenneallyi - Fog Bay
And some of the stuff from Scotland!
Drosera rotundifolia - Rannoch Moor
And the bunch of sphagnum moss, doing surprisingly well here
Wenky
11:55 PM
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