Carnivorous Plant Encyclopedia

A sundew that lays large kidney-shaped leaves flat on the ground, looking rather like a Venus flytrap. Native to tropical northern Australia, it rests as a bud at soil level in the dry season. Unusually for a carnivorous plant it grows on alkaline, calcareous soil.

An annual Australian sundew with both sticky tentacles and snap-tentacles that catapult prey in milliseconds.

A stem-forming sundew that raises a distinct stem with alternate, spoon-shaped sticky leaves. The lower stem is clothed in dead old leaves and the plant reaches about 25 cm. A robust African species with pink flowers.

A small rosette-forming sundew with wedge- to spoon-shaped leaves about 2 cm long lying at ground level. Wiry flower stalks reach about 25 cm. Native to swamps of South Africa and Madagascar.

A 'woolly' sundew of the petiolaris group with broad petioles densely covered in long silvery hairs. Rosettes are usually about 8 cm across. It bears pink to white flowers and grows around the Ord River in northern Australia.

A highland sundew from South America whose type specimen was collected on Mount Roraima in the Guiana Highlands. It carries its sticky leaves on a short stem clothed in many dead leaves, and a glandular flower stalk bears about ten flowers.

A sundew from the Cape region of South Africa forming rosettes 5-10 cm across of spoon- to heart-shaped leaves, with pink flowers. Named after the British carnivorous-plant author Adrian Slack, it holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

A sundew from south-western Western Australia forming rosettes 4-6 cm across of spoon-shaped leaves. Stalks 30-40 cm tall carry large deep-pink flowers with fused styles, a feature that places it alone in its own section.