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Droseraceae

W/C = Wild Collected
Drosera hartmeyerorum Schlauer

  • Common Name:
  • Family: Droseraceae Salisb.

  • Country of Origin: tropical northern Australia
  • Habitat:

  • Description: A scrambling annual with long leaves, which actively wrap around trapped prey. Distinguished from all other sundews by globular yellow trichomes, of uncertain function, found at the base of leaves.
  • Culture: Summer-growing annual. Sow when weather warms in spring on wet, peat-based soil. Plants benefit from abundant insect prey.
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Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200600098
  • Source: ICPS seedbank
  • Accession Date: 08-31-2006
  • Bench: 2310 - Temperate Carnivores
  • Qty: 1 confirmed on 11-03-2011
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: core eudicots
  • Order: Caryophyllales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Droseraceae
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