Drosera spatulata
SUNDEW
SKU: 497-020
Drosera spatulata, the spoon-leaved sundew, is a variable, rosette-forming sundew with spoon-shaped leaves. It produces sticky tentacles that it uses to attract and catch flies and other insects. This species is widely variable, but generally plants are about 4 cm (1.6 in) in diameter. In early summer, plants will produce 8 cm (3.1 in) tall erect scapes with around six small white or pink flowers on each one-sided racemose inflorescence. Each flower can be up to 6 mm across.
Drosera spatulata is most often grown indoors as a house plant, though it is a perennial, hardy outdoors in zones 8-10, sometimes zone 7.
This sundew has a large range and occurs naturally throughout Southeast Asia, southern China and Japan, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, eastern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. The plant does not form hibernacula in winter, and is easily grown using the same methods as Drosera capensis.
The plants are very hardy, and the seed also germinates without much difficulty, causing little plants to pop up in surrounding pots.
Type: Carnivorous plant, outdoor perennial or houseplant
Location: Sun or part sun
Drosera spatulata, the spoon-leaved sundew, is a variable, rosette-forming sundew with spoon-shaped leaves. It produces sticky tentacles that it uses to attract and catch flies and other insects. This species is widely variable, but generally plants are about 4 cm (1.6 in) in diameter. In early summer, plants will produce 8 cm (3.1 in) tall erect scapes with around six small white or pink flowers on each one-sided racemose inflorescence. Each flower can be up to 6 mm across.
Drosera spatulata is most often grown indoors as a house plant, though it is a perennial, hardy outdoors in zones 8-10, sometimes zone 7.
This sundew has a large range and occurs naturally throughout Southeast Asia, southern China and Japan, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, eastern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. The plant does not form hibernacula in winter, and is easily grown using the same methods as Drosera capensis.
The plants are very hardy, and the seed also germinates without much difficulty, causing little plants to pop up in surrounding pots.
Type: Carnivorous plant, outdoor perennial or houseplant
Location: Sun or part sun
