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Drosera admirabilis
Drosera admirabilis, sometimes referred to as the "floating sundew", is in the carnivorous plant family Droseraceae. The species was first described by Paul Debbert in 1987 and is native to the south-western Cape Province of South Africa.
Structurally similar to Drosera aliciae, and Drosera cuneifolia, the D. admirabilis grows in a single tight rosette-shaped leaf bundle. The leaves widen towards the end and have rounded tips. Leaves lay horizontally under proper lighting conditions. Like many other African sundews, D. admirabilis is a perennial. D. admirabilis has outer tentacles like those of Drosera glanduligera, Drosera sessilifolia and Drosera burmanni which briefly after stimulation bend towards the prey.
A fully mature D. admirabilis takes about one full year and can grow to about 5 cm in diameter, while reaching over 8 cm tall. This sundew can grow all year long without any dormancy period. It gets marketed with the name "floating sundew" because a fully mature specimen looks like it is hovering because new leaves are above vertically stacked old leaves. When the plant receives ample amounts of light its trichomes can darken from a green to a deep red.
It can tolerate a wide range of temperatures but prefers to stay 70–80 °F (21–27 °C). D. admirabilis does well in all ranges of humidity if properly watered, but optimal humidity is maintained within 25–50%.
Scented Sundew · Drosera acaulis · Drosera adelae · Slender Leaved Sundew · White Sundew · Drosera albonotata · Australian sundew · Pygmy Sundew · Drosera amazonica · Drosera andersoniana · Drosera androsacea · Great Sundew
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Drosera admirabilis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
