A leaf of Drosera capensis curls to encircle its insect victim trapped by the glue-like droplets of mucilage visible on the tips of each stalk protruding from the leaf. Photo by Noah Elhardt The genus ...

Experience the magical growth of a Drosera cape sundew from a seedling to sticky traps, and blooming flowers In this stunning ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is argued that conspecific pairs of subspecies within a genus should have a consistent degree of similarity - at least greater than that ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

The twitchy tentacles of a sundew can catapult prey into the carnivorous plant's sticky traps in a fraction of a second, researchers say. These fast-moving snares are among the quickest seen yet in ...

1. Sundews are a carnivorous plant, and despite their tiny size they are a formidable foe for insects on every continent except Antarctica! There at least 194 species of sundew, or Drosera, and they ...

An international team of botanists from Brazil, USA and the Botanische Staatssammlung München, Germany described a new species of carnivorous sundew (Drosera, Droseraceae), which was discovered on a ...

There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a ...

Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced to parts of England in an attempt to reverse their decline. Botanists say the "fascinating and beautiful" great sundew is extinct in many areas, ...

Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced to parts of England in an attempt to reverse their decline. Botanists say the "fascinating and beautiful" great sundew is extinct in many areas, ...

Botanists say the "fascinating and beautiful" great sundew is extinct in many areas, due to loss of wetlands. With tentacles that trap and digest insects, the plant is one of a dozen or so meat-eating ...