Green Thumb | Beautiful, silent assassin

By Deb Delahunty, Wodonga Tafe
January 3 2018 - 11:19am
INSECTS BEWARE: Drosera capensis has tentacles that appear to be tipped with a drop of dew. This is an extremely effective and very sticky mechanism for catching small insects.
INSECTS BEWARE: Drosera capensis has tentacles that appear to be tipped with a drop of dew. This is an extremely effective and very sticky mechanism for catching small insects.

The genus Drosera – commonly known as sundews contains more than one hundred species, many of which are Australian natives. The word Drosera comes from the Latin Drosos, meaning dew.

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