Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The growth of Sundew ☼

Sundew is a carnivorous plant. They eat insects! This plant is unique due to their tectacles topped with sticky secretions on their leaves. The function of the sticky mucilage is exactly like the glue traps we used to capture kill house flies, cockroaches, lizards, rats, etc. However, they're better than glue traps because this plant will secrete enzymes that will digest/dissolve their prey and absorb the nutrients.




Three's a crowd! Therefore i separate them.



 Not only it grew stem, but a baby sundew too! ^^ (bottom left of mama sundew)

Flower of Sundew. A tiny purple flower. 



I'm very surprised that the flower stalks will grew so high! As you can see, there was another stalk formed.


 And it produced tiny purple flower too.


Flower on second flower stalk.

(Taken from Wikipedia)

I would like to see my sundew in action like the above one day!



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