Drosera Capensis (Red/White) Bog Garden flowers in early Spring

flowers in early Spring

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The plant gets a pale violet flower in summer that produces a large amounts of seeds

It is a perennial plant that uses an active snap-trap to capture the insects it needs for its nutrition

position the plant in a saucer containing 1-2 centimeters of water

Drosera Capensis (Red/White) Bog Garden flowers in early SpringDrosera capensis, commonly known as the Cape sundew. It is endemic to the Cape in South Africa. It is a small rosette forming, evergreen, perennial plant with tendril like leaves. The plant uses a sticky, glistening glue (mucilage) to trap its prey and the tendrils of the plant wrap around the trapped insect to increase digestion. The plant gets a pale violet flower in summer that produces a large amounts of seeds. The seeds that self pollinate. Size