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Drosera brevicornis

Drosera brevicornis
Photo: Roland Muench, CC BY 4.0

Drosera brevicornis is a small perennial carnivorous sundew from northern Australia that traps insects on sticky leaf hairs. It grows best in open, sunny, wet-season conditions with constantly moist, nutrient-poor soil.

Family
Droseraceae (Sundew family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist, preferably by standing the pot in shallow water, and use rainwater or distilled water.
Soil
Nutrient-poor mix of sand and peat or sphagnum moss; no fertiliser.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Drosera brevicornis is a small, perennial carnivorous plant in the genus Drosera that is native to the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It grows on gravel slopes and produces white to pink flowers in March and April. It was first described by Allen Lowrie in 1996, though earlier specimens from as early as 1961 had been collected. The specific epithet brevicornis means "short horned" and refers to the horn-like projection above the anthers. It is closely related to Drosera fulva.

Other Drosera plants

Scented Sundew · Drosera acaulis · Drosera adelae · Peninsula Sundew · Slender Leaved Sundew · White Sundew · Drosera albonotata · Australian sundew · Pygmy Sundew · Drosera amazonica · Drosera andersoniana · Drosera androsacea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Drosera brevicornis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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.

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